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...roving wiretaps," made a comeback on the Attorney General's wish list last week. Presently, when wiretap authority is granted by a judge, it applies only to a specified phone. In an era of "literally disposable phones," Ashcroft said, investigators need to be able to seek permission to monitor any landline phone, cell phone or pager that a suspect uses, or to go through e-mail from any computer he works on. But once the roving tap is okayed, no judge would further oversee how it was carried out, leaving the FBI to decide on its own how many devices...
...this investigation were originally held under that rule. Even at present just a handful have been brought up on formal charges. Foreign nationals in the U.S. are subject to treatment that the courts would forbid for American citizens. The 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act gives the FBI authority to monitor secretly persons suspected of espionage or terrorism without having to show probable cause that the suspect has committed a crime. Immigrant suspects can be tried without being informed of the charges or the evidence against them. Thus the INS was able to detain Nasser Ahmed, an Egyptian in New York...
...notes that because of disputed evidence in the case, the United Nations monitor for the trial as well as many family members of the victims questioned whether Al-Megrahi was really the bomber...
Indeed, Congress is now reexamining legislation proposed last week by Attorney General John D. Ashcroft that would strengthen the Federal Government’s authority to wiretap phones, monitor e-mail and raid terrorists’ “financial infrastructure.” Congress is right to take a serious look at the long-term consequences of legislation now, rather than inviting future constitutional battles in the courts...
Bush wants to construct a testing site in Alaska where various radars will be able to monitor individual targets heading towards the U.S.––just the sort of conditions we need to determine the workability of our technology...