IP: RE: Senate votes to permit warrantless Net-wiretaps, Carn ivoreus e (fwd)

Declan McCullagh declan at well.com
Sat Sep 15 08:11:21 PDT 2001


I'll have the entire exchange, including my next response to Stu,
up on politechbot.com in a few hours.

-Declan


On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 04:03:20PM +0200, Eugene Leitl wrote:
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 20:50:31 -0400
> From: David Farber <dave at farber.net>
> To: ip-sub-1 at majordomo.pobox.com
> Subject: IP: RE: Senate votes to permit warrantless Net-wiretaps,
>      Carn ivore us e
> 
> 
> >From: "Baker, Stewart" <SBaker at steptoe.com>
> >To: "'Declan McCullagh'" <declan at well.com>, farber at cis.upenn.edu,
> >    ip-sub-1 at majordomo.pobox.com
> >cc: "Albertazzie, Sally" <SAlbertazzie at steptoe.com>,
> >    "Baker, Stewart" <SBaker at steptoe.com>
> >
> >
> >Declan,
> >
> >I ignored the first two points because I don't think they're that important.
> >These "warrantless searches" are emergency orders that have to be followed
> >by a court order in 48 hours.  Sometimes courts are closed and the cops need
> >data right away.  Tuesday evening would be a good example.  This is not some
> >out-of-control police authority.
> >
> >The people who can ask for emergency orders have to be designated by one of
> >several officials at Main Justice.  That's to make sure someone responsible
> >ends up with the authority to declare an emergency.  So an assistant US
> >attorney could be designated by Main Justice in each district right now.
> >What's the big deal with letting the US Attorney for the district do the
> >designating instead of Main Justice? Seems to me that the US Attorney
> >probably knows more about staff changeovers than Main Justice, so it makes
> >sense for the US Attorney to do the designating locally.
> >
> >Stewart
> 
> 
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