From: "Jack Flap" <jack_flap@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 22:21:45 +0800
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Subject: Re: 1996 Wiretap Report
Message-ID: <199705291406.HAA02256@f19.hotmail.com>
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Eric Blossom <eb@comsec.com> may have written:
> (2) In the past 11 years (1986 - 1996) a total of 9,912 intercept
>     applications were approved.  Of that number 5 (five!) were for
>     "Arson, explosives, and weapons."  Unless they've classified wiretaps
>     against "suspected terrorists" in the "Other" category, it looks
>     as if the LEOs don't think (targeted) wiretaps are useful for stopping
>     small groups of modestly skilled people bent on blowing things up. No 
Shit.

Hmmm. :-)

I guess the spook angle is to ensure that those are <cringe>well
targetted</cringe> wiretaps - targetting based on intelligence,
which is probably not the same as legal intercept...

Jack.



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