[IP] more on FBI plans new Net-tapping push

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: "Hugh D. Hyatt" <hughhyatt@bluehen.udel.edu>
Date: July 8, 2006 11:37:01 AM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: Re: [IP] FBI plans new Net-tapping push

For IP, if you wish....

David Farber is alleged to have written, on or about 08-Jul-06 08:00:

> Begin forwarded message:
> From: Richard Forno <rforno@infowarrior.org>
> Date: July 8, 2006 2:22:38 AM EDT
> To: Blaster <rforno@infowarrior.org>
> Cc: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>
> Subject: FBI plans new Net-tapping push
> FBI plans new Net-tapping push
> By Declan McCullagh
> http://news.com.com/FBI+plans+new+Net-tapping+push/ 
> 2100-1028_3-6091942.html

[snip]

> • Eliminate the current legal requirement saying the Justice  
> Department must publish a public "notice of the actual number of  
> communications
> interceptions" every year. That notice currently also must disclose  
> the
> "maximum capacity" required to accommodate all of the legally  
> authorized
> taps that government agencies will "conduct and use simultaneously."

This would eliminate the public's ability to learn interesting and  
important facts like those published here (also by Mr McCullagh):  
http://speakout.com/activism/opinions/4377-1.html.  For example,  
"According to government statistics, in 1998 police intercepted  
2,313,210 conversations but the taps -- 71% were for drug-related  
crimes -- resulted in only 911 convictions."  Was that a reasonable  
trade-off between security and freedom?  And how else can we, the  
people, make such judgments without having facts like these?

--
Hugh D. Hyatt
Bryn Athyn, PA

  The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal
  vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the
     consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.
                                             -- John Philpot Curran




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