--- To: declan@private From: Hasan Diwan <hdiwan@private> Subject: Fwd: [IP] F.B.I.'s Reach Into Records Is Set to Grow Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 16:04:19 -0800 Does this make you as worried as it makes me? Begin forwarded message: [...] >Delivered-To: dfarber+@ux13.sp.cs.cmu.edu >Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 10:40:18 +0100 >From: the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow <geoff@private> >Subject: F.B.I.'s Reach Into Records Is Set to Grow >To: Dave E-mail Pamphleteer Farber <dave@private> > >F.B.I.'s Reach Into Records Is Set to Grow >By ERIC LICHTBLAU >The New York Times > >Published: November 12, 2003 > >WASHINGTON, Nov. 11 — A little-noticed measure approved by both the House >and Senate would significantly expand the F.B.I.'s power to demand financial >records, without a judge's approval, from car dealers, travel agents, >pawnbrokers and many other businesses, officials said on Tuesday. > >Traditional financial institutions like banks and credit unions are >frequently subject to administrative subpoenas from the Federal Bureau of >Investigation to produce financial records in terrorism and espionage >investigations. Such subpoenas, which are known as national security >letters, do not require the bureau to seek a judge's approval before issuing >them. > >The measure now awaiting final approval in Congress would significantly >broaden the law to include securities dealers, currency exchanges, car >dealers, travel agencies, post offices, casinos, pawnbrokers and any other >institution doing cash transactions with "a high degree of usefulness in >criminal, tax or regulatory matters." > >Officials said the measure, which is tucked away in the intelligence >community's authorization bill for 2004, gives agents greater flexibility >and speed in seeking to trace the financial assets of people suspected of >terrorism and espionage. It mirrors a proposal that President Bush outlined >in a speech two months ago to expand the use of administrative subpoenas in >terrorism cases. > >--snip-- > >http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/12/politics/12RECO.html _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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