Federal Appeals Court Slams FBI's Actions in Security Deposit Box Raid

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> ... a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel unanimously ... slammed the FBI for overstepping its authority when it opened up hundreds of renters’ boxes, conducted criminal searches of them all, and attempted to permanently keep everything in the boxes worth more than $5,000, all without charging any box renter with a crime.

How is this different from a bank robbery? As I see it, the FBI robbed this bank.

There is only a public rebuke in this instance because the public discovered what the FBI had done this time. Nothing will change from this. That agency is still a rogue secret political police that thinks and acts like it is above the law because 99% of the time it is.

Trump makes the same argument, which is funny because he fired the last Director (Comey) his hand-picked successor, Christopher Wray, is still the Director of the FBI after all this time (also funny how he bashes the federal reserve, despite firing the last Chair (Janet Yellen) and his hand picked successor, Jerome Powell, still in charge of the Fed as of 2024).

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