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...memos--written before and after 9/11--are in the files as well. A constant stream of theories and proposals comes from FBI field offices to the bureau's headquarters in Washington. We agents see things we think are worth a closer look. We recommend opening a case. We recommend a wiretap, an undercover operation or around-the-clock surveillance. But all proposals need to be reviewed for legality, practicality and the potential of public backlash...
...book is described by Pages magazine as "a multimedia collage, a cultural document, a pop-art concoction, a witty roman a clef, incorporating court documents, pages from Fleiss' personal and business diaries, old post-it notes scribble with phone numbers about which one can only guess, candid photographs, wiretap transcripts Fleiss bought from federal investigators, and the unique, world-weary philosophy of a woman who describes herself as '36 years old, going...
...entertainment complex. The networks need a new twist on reality TV, the genre that has cooled since 9/11--or perhaps, in part, because of it. The Pentagon has a p.r. issue: How do you maintain public interest in a war that could stay on simmer--an air strike here, a wiretap there--for years...
Then, again, maybe they won't. Davis' most audacious proposal--allowing California cops to put a "roving wiretap" on any phone used by a suspect rather than on specific phone numbers (a power granted to the FBI last October)--is a canny merger of the dramatic and the cheap. No other state has sanctioned roving taps--hence the drama--and civil liberties, while priceless, are free. That helps explain why wiretap laws are also up for modification in Maryland, Illinois, New York and Michigan...
Judged by historical standards, Bush gets mixed marks. His detention of aliens is much less draconian than F.D.R.'s, and Bush has preached against racial scapegoating. Congress has endorsed the additional wiretap authority. Military trials for alien terrorists would go beyond World War II precedents, but not by miles. Even if constitutionally permissible, however, nonpublic, nonjury military trials may be grossly unwise, forgoing the opportunity to showcase dramatic evidence of wrongdoing as well as America's fair judicial procedures...