At 18:43 11/3/95, Rich Graves wrote:
[about the FBI supposedly wanting the ability to tap 1% of all phones in the US simultaneously]
[...]
Of course the FBI doesn't have the staff to listen to all these lines, and they need an individual court order to authorize each individual interception, so this numbers game is a bit of a joke.
One more time. Despite what you read in the papers, despite what most people - even in the legal profession - believe, telephone wiretaps do _not_ require a court order. They haven't required a court order in over a year. The Digital Telephony Bill, which passed Congress by an overwhelming margin, _explicitly_ allows for wiretap authorizations other than a court order. The law does not impose any rules for these "other forms of authorization". "The captain signed it off" may suffice. -- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred.