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FBI Says It Improperly Obtained Reporters Phone Records
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 04:52:02 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via The New York Times. [snip] The Federal Bureau of Investigation said Friday that it had improperly obtained the phone records of reporters for The New York Times and The Washington Post in the newspapers Indonesia bureaus in 2004. Robert S. Mueller III, director of the F.B.I., disclosed the episode in a phone call to Bill Keller, the executive editor of The Times, and apologized for it. He also spoke with Leonard Downie Jr., the executive editor of The Washington Post, to apologize. F.B.I. officials said the incident came to light as part of the continuing review by the Justice Department inspector generals office into the bureaus improper collection of telephone records through emergency records demands issued to phone providers. The records were apparently sought as part of a terrorism investigation, but the F.B.I. did not explain what was being investigated or why the reporters phone records were considered relevant. [snip] More: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/09/washington/09inquire.html - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFInSJzq1pz9mNUZTMRAo8TAKCqLWztRM5D6k2avigiY4OIt3EZCwCg0WJE c0ZAr+lUlBuIeIpjsxDRXq8= =4qsk -----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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