Sorry, Wrong Wiretap 166
Rick Zeman writes "CNN is covering a little-mentioned Inspector General's report which mentions that the FBI 'sometimes gets the wrong number when it intercepts conversations in terrorism investigations' due to various reasons, and that 'The FBI could not say Friday whether people are notified that their conversations were mistakenly intercepted or whether wrongly tapped telephone numbers were deleted from bureau records.'"
Sorry, Wrong Wiretap (Score:5, Informative)
The FBI could not say Friday whether people are notified that their conversations were mistakenly intercepted or whether wrongly tapped telephone numbers were deleted from bureau records.
Why should they tell people their phones were tapped and conversations recorded? I'd bet that the people involved would get vocal about wiretaps.
use of warrants issued by a court that operates in secret under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
They use secret courts so they aren't accountable to the people who pay their salary, the taxpayers.
FalconRe:Shocking!! The Government Ain't Perfect (Score:3, Informative)
No! Next you'll be telling me that moderators sometimes label "informative" posts "insightful"
Re:Shocking!! The Government Ain't Perfect (Score:2, Informative)
Yes, but they need either a warrant or a very good reason such as witnessing you committing the crime, finding you covered in blood near a murder scene, etc.. That's the way it used to be with wiretaps. Thanks to the inappropriately named patriot act, they can do it to anyone at any time, without notification.
What about the Constitution? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:sounds like... (Score:3, Informative)
Section I, subsection A. Paragraph 5.
Second, FISA allows a secret court to authorize U.S. intelligence agencies to conduct surveillance using each of the four basic mechanisms listed above....The secret court's role here, however, is quite limited: it is not supposed to "second-guess" the government's certifications or representations. (Unsurprisingly, the secret FISA court has only denied one application in its over twenty-year existence.)
Third party information, but the EFF is pretty much the ACLU for digital information. I've seen it other places, but don't have the links anymore.