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11-08-2003, 02:39 PM
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Terrorist Lapdancers
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LAS VEGAS – The FBI used the USA Patriot Act to obtain financial information about key figures in a political corruption probe centered on striptease club owner Michael Galardi, an agent said.
Investigators used a section of the Patriot Act to get subpoenas for financial documents, said Special Agent Jim Stern, a spokesman for the Las Vegas FBI office.
"It was used appropriately by the FBI and was clearly within the legal parameters of the statute," Stern said.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Tuesday that records were subpoenaed from Galardi, the owner of Jaguars in southern Nevada and Cheetah's in Las Vegas and San Diego; his lobbyist, former Clark County Commissioner Lance Malone; former Commissioner Erin Kenny; County Commission Chairwoman Mary Kincaid-Chauncey; former County Commission Chairman Dario Herrera; and Las Vegas City Councilman Michael McDonald, who lost a re-election bid in June.
The Patriot Act, passed after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, was originally touted by the government as a tool to help federal law enforcers combat and prevent terrorism.
Civil libertarians have criticized the Bush administration for employing the wide-ranging act to also crack down on drug traffickers and child pornographers.
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11-08-2003, 02:42 PM
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....to also crack down on drug traffickers and child pornographers.
| Maybe I'm just weird, but generally that's a good thing.
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11-08-2003, 02:47 PM
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I'm guessing there are no "72 virgins" involved in that form a terrorism.
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11-08-2003, 03:34 PM
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I'm not sure why they needed to use the "Patriot" Act at all. Maybe just because Ashcroft had a new toy. But they've caught several of our San Diego councilmen red-handed, accepting bribes from Galardi to loosen our "no touch" and "distance" laws here.
In short, almost half of our city council has been disgraced, and over what? and for what? Strippers and peanuts.
San Diego is a pretty great place, but we just seem to have a hankerin' for petty thieves and corruption in our politics. And not just recently, either. Seems as if we have a major scandal every decade here.
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11-08-2003, 04:20 PM
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11-08-2003, 04:29 PM
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Uh-oh -- I'm in trouble! Where do I go to report my subversive tendencies?
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11-08-2003, 04:33 PM
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Don't go anywhere, they will come to you =)
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11-09-2003, 02:02 AM
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11-09-2003, 07:27 AM
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The point is the act is being used inproperly. Its intention was to capture and punish terrorists. Not one of the people mentioned in the report could remotely be called a TERRORIST. Its Not to be used as a scandal club.
To use it to capture people who are giving kickbacks to local politicians is wasteful of time and OUR tax dollars.
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11-09-2003, 06:35 PM
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Civil libertarians have criticized the Bush administration for employing the wide-ranging act to also crack down on drug traffickers and child pornographers.
| Leave it to them Civil Libertarians to stand up for those wonderfull drug trafficers and child pornographers.  | |
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