That’s what the Wall Street Journal’s Evan Perez reports this morning. Last week FBI Director Robert Mueller admitted to Congress that the feds had abused their subpoena power of citizens’ personal financial information without receiving the approval of a judge. But an audit by Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine on national security letters isn’t too harsh and even applauds the FBI for working to prevent abuses. Still being investigated, however, is whether the agency ran afoul of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.  Read Perez here.    MB

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