U.S. Lawmakers Want FBI Access to Data Curbed

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via The Washington Post.

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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."

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More:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/14/AR200804140
2664.html

- - ferg

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