Lucky Green writes:

At 2:08 3/26/96, Shabbir J. Safdar wrote:

It is a widespread myth that wiretaps require warrants. Court ordered warrants are not required for a wiretap. They have not been required since the Digital Telephony Bill passed.

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That the net, the media, and even attorneys are so blissfully unaware of this, even years after the provision doing away with requiring warrants became law, is one of the finest examples of cognitive dissonance you are ever likely to find. It is too disturbing to believe it, so the mind ignores the facts.

When everyone in the world seems to disagree with you, isn't it a good idea to check the facts?

Excerpt from the Digital Telephony Bill (deleted) [..] "My supervisor approved it" may well suffice.

Your misunderstanding of how interceptions are done is dangerous to what is otherwise a rational, intelligent argument. Indeed, there are ways to conduct a wiretap without a judge. They require dispensations from people like the Attorney General, for example. And this is certainly not a normal practice. There are a lot of reasons to object to DT, but this is not one of them. -Shabbir J. Safdar * Online Representative * Voters Telecomm. Watch (VTW) http://www.vtw.org/ * Defending Your Rights In Cyberspace