[IP] U.S. Steps Up Secret Surveillance

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: "the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow" <geoff@iconia.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 06:59:05 +0100
To: "Dave E-mail Pamphleteer Farber" <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
Subject: U.S. Steps Up Secret Surveillance

U.S. Steps Up Secret Surveillance
FBI, Justice Dept. Increase Use of Wiretaps, Records Searches

By Dan Eggen and Robert O'Harrow Jr.
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, March 24, 2003; Page A01

Since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the Justice Department and FBI have
dramatically increased the use of two little-known powers that allow
authorities to tap telephones, seize bank and telephone records and obtain
other information in counterterrorism investigations with no immediate court
oversight, according to officials and newly disclosed documents.

The FBI, for example, has issued scores of "national security letters" that
require businesses to turn over electronic records about finances, telephone
calls, e-mail and other personal information, according to officials and
documents. The letters, a type of administrative subpoena, may be issued
independently by FBI field offices and are not subject to judicial review
unless a case comes to court, officials said.

Attorney General John D. Ashcroft has also personally signed more than 170
"emergency foreign intelligence warrants," three times the number authorized
in the preceding 23 years, according to recent congressional testimony.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16287-2003Mar23.html

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