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[privacy] Deletions in U.S. Army Manual Raise Wiretapping Concerns
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 21:19:38 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via The New York Times. [snip] Deep into an updated Army manual, the deletion of 10 words has left some national security experts wondering whether government lawyers are again asserting the executive branchs right to wiretap Americans without a court warrant. The manual, described by the Army as a major revision to intelligence-gathering guidelines, addresses policies and procedures for wiretapping Americans, among other issues. The original guidelines, from 1984, said the Army could seek to wiretap people inside the United States on an emergency basis by going to the secret court set up by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, known as FISA, or by obtaining certification from the attorney general issued under the authority of section 102(a) of the Act. That last phrase is missing from the latest manual, which says simply that the Army can seek emergency wiretapping authority pursuant to an order issued by the FISA court or upon attorney general authorization. It makes no mention of the attorney general doing so under FISA. [snip] More: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/14/washington/14spyside.html - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.2 (Build 4075) wj8DBQFFqp5lq1pz9mNUZTMRAmSrAKDI+RIhRkkVUFvM3ruTcBhr7EhpvACfdtPq U2R8Ec5HgqKYTFU0MXSSrf4= =Fdem -----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/
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