An MP has complained over the "appalling abuse" of security at Wimbledon where officials confiscate food if they compete with the products of the tournament's official sponsors.
In testimony before Congress in March 2007 regarding abuses of national security letters, Valerie E. Caproni, the bureau's general counsel, said that in one small sample, 10 out of 20 violations were a result of "third-party error," in which a private company "provided the F.B.I. information we did not seek".
The law was in part a response to abuses of national-security wiretaps by the Nixon administration, which had used electronic surveillance against its domestic opponents in the guise of counterintelligence investigations.
After her lecture, Theoharis told VICE News that human rights abuses of high-security inmates are something the public associates mostly with Guantanamo.
This year, the Dutch government said it was necessary to combat "the abuse of social security systems".
Lawmakers in both parties have voiced disapproval of the F.B.I.'s abuse of national security letters.
The Obama administration has been disturbingly successful at slamming the courts for any challenges to its excessive use, and abuse, of national security powers.
Meanwhile, in 1971-72, Fishad had chaired a committee on the abuse of social security benefits: its clear and firm recommendations bore all the hallmarks of his writing.
The F.B.I.'s recent history includes the abuse of national security letters to gather information about law-abiding citizens without court orders, and inappropriate investigations of antiwar and environmental activists.
One oughta-be-a-law applies to a problem that touches a nerve in tens of millions of Americans: the abuse of Social Security numbers as identifiers, contrary to the specific intent of the system.
