FBI tracking journalists’ phone calls
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This won’t help George Bush regain some popularity. Brian Ross, ABC News’ Chief investigative correspondent, and Richard Esposito, from ABC News, today reported that: “The FBI acknowledged late Monday that it is increasingly seeking reporters’ phone records in leak investigations.”
FBI officials don’t deny that journalists’ phone line from ABC News, the NY Times, and the Washington Post are monitored.
And they acknowledged having some difficulties at the beginning but the Bush administration ease their wiretapping job.
Ross and Esposito also warned about this:
“Officials say the FBI makes extensive use of a new provision of the Patriot Act which allows agents to seek information with what are called National Security Letters (NSL).”
“The NSLs are a version of an administrative subpoena and are not signed by a judge. Under the law, a phone company receiving a NSL for phone records must provide them and may not divulge to the customer that the records have been given to the government.”
Here two questions: - Can they also monitor phone calls over the Internet? Or in the future, will people have to use the Philipp Zimmerman ZFone to get away from the Patriot Act watch network? - Are bloggers under the FBI radar too? As more and more reporters will blog officially or unofficially, the FBI might extend its web.
May 17, 2006 | By Nuno
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