For years, agents with the FBI collected telephone records using fake emergency declarations, or by just asking for them using sticky notes or e-mails.
Yet FBI attorneys failed to recognize the seriousness of the problem after being told what was happening. And they did not take sufficient steps to stop the agents, who were violating both electronic privacy law and federal policy, according to a Justice Department inspector general report released in January.
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