I have to laugh at the sanctimonious presupposition that HIPPA matters when the government is magic lantering your email and listening to all your phone comunications, and your texting (if you’re teenboppersomething in age or in your young twenties and a Gossip Girl afficianado and have read a total of five novels or less (the average US high school grad/college freshman).

Books are something little Tiffie won’t be taking to ole State U.

Otherwise it’s just the constitution, don’t piss on my nice suit.

President Bush wants the bureau to proceed carefully, to ensure proper procedures are followed and any anthrax evidence holds up in court, a spokesman has said.

Other scientists, led by Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, a bioweapons expert with the independent Federation of American Scientists, have accused the bureau of foot-dragging.

Rosenberg, who teaches at the Purchase campus of the State University of New York, has hinted at potentially embarrassing U.S. violations of an international biowarfare treaty. She also maintains the FBI has suspects around Washington, D.C. – claims rebutted by the FBI and White House.

“homemade yellow with silver duct tape body armor“. Sure comes off a hell of a lot differently than the scary swat squad defying Rambo/Terminator picture they have been painting for the public eh? Heh heh. This really is the Iraqi Duct Tape Drone and Powell’s bogus UN dog and pony show redux.

(Note: I typed the accounts exactly as they appeared on the warrants, and it’s obvious WHY they used the [at] and [dot] formats, as almost all software now turns correctly formatted addies into links.)

There is no Return doc for 08-084, to Yahoo for “jimmyflathead[at]yahoo[dot]com” and “xxxxxxx@yahoo.com“.

The Return doc for 08-083, to AOL for “kingbadger7@aol.com“, produced “One (1) CD containing snapshots of the requested e-mail account” on Feb 18 2008.

The Return doc for 08-082 is the funny and peculiar one — to MSN for “goldenphoenix111[at]hotmail[dot]com“. In the box that says “DATE AND TIME WARRANT EXECUTED“, there are two entries: “2/14/08 4:08 pm = faxed” and “2/26/08 = MSN executed“. Does that mean that the Fibbies ’served’ the warrant by fax on the 14th, but MSN didn’t produce their result until the 26th, and does that satisfy the order to search before the 22nd?

This Return made me ROTFLMAO:

MSN was unable to determine the user of the email account based on the terms provided, specifically “[at]” instead of “@”, and “[dot]” instead of “.”.

(There are no docs indicating that they tried again with a revised account name.)

And yep, I laughed too when I read Item 15 from the July 12 Return: “homemade yellow with silver duct tape body armor“.

Until the feds cough up information this is going to continue to be entirely speculative.You live in a country that used to be a democracy and is anything but a democracy. The DOJ doesn’t feel they have to answer to anyone, and Congress as oversight is a weak passive appendage that’s a joke.

People like Rove, Miers, Bolten and Bush piss on Congress as often as you use the bathroom. That’s just the facts.

And to alank and others: There’s been ample documentation in articles cited on this very post that the Ivins are Catholic. Read about the memorial service.