FC: Carnivore's future is in peril, from St. Louis Post-Dispatch

From: Declan McCullagh (declanat_private)
Date: Sun Jun 03 2001 - 21:52:55 PDT

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     From the leading newspaper of our attorney general's home state. Thanks to 
    D.S. for forwarding.
    
    More on Carnivore:
    http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=carnivore
    
    -Declan
    
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    http://home.post-dispatch.com/channel/pdweb.nsf/text/86256A0E0068FE5086256A6000386983
    
        FBI's troubles could imperil its system of e-mail surveillance
        This story was published in A-section on Sunday, June 3, 2001.
    
        By Jon Sawyer
        Post-Dispatch Washington Bureau Chief
        WASHINGTON - The FBI's recent troubles could imperil the e-mail
        surveillance system that the agency developed and that critics have
        blasted as a threat to individual privacy.
    
        The fate of the surveillance system, called Carnivore, will be
        addressed first by Attorney General John Ashcroft. He delayed
        completion of an internal review of the program when the FBI was
        rocked by controversy over its misplaced documents in the case against
        Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.
    
        The Carnivore system had been endorsed by former Attorney General
        Janet Reno and received a qualified vote of confidence in an outside
        review last December by the Illinois Institute of Technology.
    
        Ashcroft, a leader on privacy issues during his term in the Senate,
        had taken a more skeptical stance even before the McVeigh disclosures.
    
        If Ashcroft gives the surveillance system his approval, it will
        immediately be the focus of scrutiny on Capitol Hill, especially in
        the Senate Judiciary Committee. Committee staff members said incoming
        Democratic Chairman Patrick Leahy of Vermont would announce Sunday
        that he plans hearings on FBI oversight as one of his first agenda
        items this summer.
    
        [...]
    
    
    
    
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