Transcript's up at politchbot.com. On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 01:09:47PM +0100, Eugene Leitl wrote:
DOJ's Already Monitoring Modems By Declan McCullagh and Ben Polen
4:42 p.m. Nov. 28, 2001 PST
WASHINGTON -- The Department of Justice already is using its new anti-terrorism powers to monitor cable modem users without obtaining a judge's permission first.
A top Bush administration official lauded the controversial USA Patriot Act at a Senate hearing on Wednesday, saying that the new abilities have let police obtain information in investigations that was previously unavailable.
"We would not have been able to do (this) under prior law without a specific court order," said Michael Chertoff, assistant attorney general in the Justice Department's criminal division.
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