[privacy] Spying Fight about e-Mails, Not Phone Calls, DoJ Reveals

[Richard M. Smith]

Does the NSA have to analyze spam messages also, just in case they aren't
really spam?  Maybe the subject line "Double Your Penis Size" actually means
"terrorist attack tomorrow". ;-)

Richard

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From: Paul Ferguson [mailto:fergdawg at netzero.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 6:37 PM
To: privacy at whitestar.linuxbox.org
Subject: [privacy] Spying Fight about e-Mails, Not Phone Calls, DoJ Reveals

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Via Threat Level.

[snip]

In the end, it turns out it's all about the emails.

The fight in Congress and the big push for expanded wiretapping powers has
nothing to do with intercepting foreign-to-foreign phone calls inside the
United States without a court order. In fact, it turns out that the
nation's secret wiretapping court is fine with that.

That extraordinary admission came from Assistant Attorney General for
National Security Kenneth Wainstein at a breakfast on Monday, according to
the Washington Post.

[snip]

More:
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/03/spying-fight-ab.html

- - ferg

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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg(at)netzero.net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/

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