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Subject: FC: Senate votes to permit warrantless Net-wiretaps, Carnivore use
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 16:14:37 -0400
From: Declan McCullagh <
declan@well.com>
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Text of the Hatch-Feinstein "Combating Terrorism Act of 2001":
http://www.politechbot.com/docs/cta.091401.html
Muddled debate over the amendment:
http://www.fas.org/sgp/congress/2001/s091301.html
-Declan
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http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46852,00.html
Senate OKs FBI Net Spying
By Declan McCullagh (
declan@wired.com)
12:55 p.m. Sep. 14, 2001 PDT
WASHINGTON -- FBI agents soon may be able to spy on Internet users
legally without a court order.
On Thursday evening, two days after the worst terrorist attack in U.S.
history, the Senate approved the "Combating Terrorism Act of 2001,"
which enhances police wiretap powers and permits monitoring in more
situations.
The measure, proposed by Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Dianne Feinstein
(D-California), says any U.S. attorney or state attorney general can
order the installation of the FBI's Carnivore surveillance system.
Previously, there were stiffer restrictions on Carnivore and other
Internet surveillance techniques.
Its bipartisan sponsors argue that such laws are necessary to thwart
terrorism. "It is essential that we give our law enforcement
authorities every possible tool to search out and bring to justice
those individuals who have brought such indiscriminate death into our
backyard," Hatch said during the debate on the Senate floor.
[...]
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