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Ami Anne
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posted June 01, 2013 09:23 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ami Anne     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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On Saturday, Investment Watch Blog revealed that in June of 2011, the Department of Homeland Security had sent written messages to banks throughout the United States informing them that the agency has the authority, “under the Patriot Act,” to inspect safety deposit boxes, without a warrant.

Investment Watch discovered this information in a message board post from two years ago. According to the post, the DHS agents that investigate the boxes “’shall, at the discretion of the agent supervising the search, remove, photograph or seize as evidence’ any of the following items ‘bar gold, gold coins, firearms of any kind unless manufactured prior to 1878, documents such as passports or foreign bank account records, pornography or any material that, in the opinion of the agent, shall be deemed of to be of a contraband nature.’”

Further, bank employees are forbidden to reveal when DHS agents perform these inspections, even to the person whose box was inspected:

You can read the rest at this link. Did AG wake up yet?
http://www.examiner.com/article/dhs-claims-authority-to-inspect-safety-de posit-boxes-without-warrants

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mockingbird
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posted June 01, 2013 09:43 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for mockingbird     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
This - and variations of this - has been going around since 2006.

Snopes is your friend.

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AcousticGod
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posted June 01, 2013 09:47 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for AcousticGod     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
What mockingbird said. :eyeroll:

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Ami Anne
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posted June 01, 2013 10:01 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ami Anne     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by AcousticGod:
What mockingbird said. :eyeroll:

AG, I HOPE it is fake but I doubt it with this Clown in Chief

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Randall
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posted June 01, 2013 10:11 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
It's rolleyes, AG.

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Ami Anne
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posted June 01, 2013 10:12 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ami Anne     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
LOL I need to give AG a tutorial in icons

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AcousticGod
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posted June 01, 2013 11:16 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for AcousticGod     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Wow! That's pretty rookie of me! :chuckling:

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