From: "George A. Gleason" <gg@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 93 02:36:22 PDT
To: stig@netcom.com
Subject: Re: Disturbing statistics on wiretaps
Message-ID: <93Sep29.023420pdt.14278-2@well.sf.ca.us>
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And of course it should be remembered that there is still an old drug-war
thing on the books which allows 72 hours' interception without a court
order.  Now depending on how that's interpreted, 72 hours are a lot of
conversations.  This stuff can be used for background intelligence and
investigation where it never winds up in court but is used to get
information to be used in other ways.  "It's what they don't tell you..."

-gg