FC: House approves spy, intelligence, wiretap bill

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/ap/20011213/pl/intelligence_congress_8.html
House Passes Intelligence Bill
2001-12-13 07:10:16

WASHINGTON (AP) - A new intelligence bill passed unanimously by the House 
places new emphasis on traditional human spy networks in combatting 
terrorism. It would increase spending by 8 percent - higher than the 7 
percent President
Bush sought. Besides focusing new attention and funding on human spies, it 
aims to increase the portion of collected data that gets analyzed and 
turned into useful information.

[...]

The bill would also make it easier to get a roving wiretap, amending a law 
that requires agents to list the instrument's location. Since roving 
wiretaps are aimed at moving objects such as cell phones, locations keep 
changing. Under the bill, if agents don't know where it is, they would not 
have to list
it.




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