IP: DOJ's Already Monitoring Modems (fwd)

Declan McCullagh declan at well.com
Thu Nov 29 08:42:10 PST 2001


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.
> >
> >...
> >
> >http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,48711,00.html
> 
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