More Abuse of Power

Dear editor:

Evidently Attorney General Gonzales and FBI Director Mueller are both doing “a heck of a job.” After all, under Mueller, the FBI has collected intimate information about the lives of 52,000 innocent Americans and stored it in an intelligence database accessible to about 12,000 federal, state and local law enforcement authorities and to certain foreign governments. They did all this collection through telephone records, e-mail addresses, and employment and credit histories of people including American citizens and green-card holders. All of this has happened due to the direct abuse of the “Patriot Act” by agencies that are supposed to protect our rights.

The White House issued a statement from Brazil that Mueller and his boss, Gonzales have “worked hard to acknowledge it should have been handled better and are taking appropriate steps” to correct this abuse of our civil liberties. Guess they truly are doing a “heck of a job.” The statement went further to say “they’ve been accountable and are taking action.” Accountable and taking action? How can you be held accountable when you keep your job?