IP: FYI, new FISA figures

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

>From: "Kevin L. Poulsen" <klp@well.com>
>To: <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
>
>http://www.securityfocus.com/news/201
>
>Record 'National Security' FBI wiretapping in 2000
>
>by Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus.com
>May 2, 2001 5:30 PM PT
>
>WASHINGTON--Federal agents filed a record 1,005 applications to perform
>electronic surveillance and covert physical burglaries in supposed terrorism
>and espionage investigations last year, all of which were granted, according
>to Justice Department figures made public Wednesday.
>
>The FBI's national security wiretapping in 2000 shattered the previous
>record of 886 applications in 1999, and took up the slack from an overall
>decrease in surveillance in conventional criminal investigations during the
>same period, according to figures the Department of Justice reported to
>Congress last week, obtained by the Federation of American Scientists (FAS)
>under the Freedom of Information Act.
>
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