CPSR Alert 3.06

[Carl Ellison]

>Section 1011(b) authorizes the FBI to obtain the credit reports of
>individuals without a warrant if a designee of the Attorney General
>sends a letter to the credit bureau stating that the subject is the
>target of a counter-intelligence investigation and they have "specific
>and articulable facts" that the person is a foreign agent.

I wonder whether exchange of encrypted e-mail with a foreign national
would constitute specific and srticulatable facts that a US citizen
was a foreign agent....

 - Carl