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U.S. Lawmakers Want FBI Access to Data Curbed
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 02:42:17 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via The Washington Post. [snip] Bipartisan groups in Congress are pressing to place new controls on the FBI's ability to demand troves of sensitive personal information from telephone providers and credit card companies, over the opposition of agency officials who say they deserve more time to clean up past abuses. Proposals to rein in the use of secret "national security letters" will be discussed over the next week at hearings in both chambers. The hearings stem from disclosures that the FBI had clandestinely gathered telephone, e-mail and financial records "sought for" or "relevant to" terrorism or intelligence activities without following appropriate procedures. The Justice Department's inspector general issued reports in 2007 and earlier this year citing repeated breaches. They included shoddy FBI paperwork, improper claims about nonexistent emergencies and an insufficient link between the data requests and ongoing national security probes. "It is clear that the NSL authority is too overbroad and operates unchecked," said Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), a co-sponsor of the House bill. "We must give our law enforcement the tools they need to protect us, but any such powers must be consistent with the rule of law." [snip] More: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/14/AR200804140 2664.html - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFIBBYHq1pz9mNUZTMRAuKLAKCuKUqqakBvbyV4iKZmtsvlpZcvwACfUAIT 0hZGhB36VmhNWtvHNyj3avI= =4HUb -----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/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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