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[privacy] Does Senate FISA Bill Immunize FBI 'Black-Bag Jobs'?
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:33:41 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via the C|Net "Iconoclast" Blog. [snip] A few decades ago, the FBI regularly conducted "black-bag jobs" that involved sneaking into homes, hotel rooms and offices with the cooperation of the building's owner or even a neighbor with a spare key. Locks were picked otherwise. Because no judge had authorized the FBI's black-bag job, they were incredibly illegal. In the mid-1970s, the Church Committee famously disclosed the bureau's clandestine operations. Now President Bush is backing a bill that seems to encourage the FBI to revert to some of its old habits. The FISA Amendments Act, approved by a Senate committee last week, seems to immunize people who cooperated with the FBI, the CIA, the National Security Agency--and other even more shadowy agencies--that conduct black-bag jobs. [snip] More: http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-9801975-38.html - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFHHRczq1pz9mNUZTMRAls/AJ9r+xN8ef8NdHF/tBREqNThNHA0wACfdvI6 MysQOfq29IKm4x0wU5adjPo= =Jnvs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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