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...crime’s perpetrator. He recalls a string of projector thefts at the Kennedy School of Government in March 2003 when the thief, a repeat offender, was caught on camera coming out of a classroom with a liquid crystal display projector. The next day, HUPD obtained a warrant for the perpetrator’s arrest...
...their level," says a congressional intelligence staffer who has seen the general in action with lawmakers. "He has that wonderful quality of being quite likable and unpretentious. And he would work those members assiduously." In fact, he was credited with so effectively defending the National Security Agency's no-warrant wiretapping program after it was exposed in December that he helped turn a simmering scandal into a political win for the Administration--to a degree that President George W. Bush might have hoped for another assist when he nominated Hayden to replace Porter Goss as CIA director. "In personal appearance...
...public's confidence in Bush, asking the public to trust him to balance the values of privacy and security could turn out to be a dicier proposition than it was in December, when the New York Times revealed that the President had authorized the supersecret NSA to conduct no-warrant wiretaps of hundreds and perhaps thousands of phone calls and e-mail messages between people inside the U.S. and parties overseas...
...Detroit to cell phones in Pakistan, for instance. The NSA can whittle down the hundreds of millions of phone numbers harvested to hundreds of thousands that fit certain profiles it finds interesting; those in turn are cross-checked with other intelligence databases to find, perhaps, a few thousand that warrant more investigation. "That data can be extremely useful, even if you never know who is on the other end of the phones," says Bryan Cunningham, an ex-CIA lawyer and former deputy legal adviser to the National Security Council in the Bush White House. "You can create all kinds...
There are many avenues the government may take legally, if the NSA comes across a call pattern that warrants further investigation within the U.S. If the NSA wants to wiretap domestic calls, the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) requires it or the FBI to seek a special court warrant. The FISA court received 10,617 such applications from 1995 to 2004 and approved all but four of them. And under the Patriot Act, if the FBI certifies that it has grounds, it may also collect more information, such as the customer's name, address and billing information. Last year...