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...court also left the police a couple of outs. The first is to get a search warrant. If the cops have good reason to peer inside a house, they can always go to a judge and get permission--just as they do today with a wiretap. The second is to wait for the technology to become ubiquitous. If everybody owns a through-the-wall imager, the court suggested last week, then nobody can reasonably expect any privacy anywhere, even at home...
Most people think the CIA is not allowed to collect intelligence in the U.S. In fact, the agency's clandestine service has an arm called the National Resources Division that works entirely in the U.S. It isn't allowed to wiretap Americans or otherwise spy on them but can ask them to volunteer information. So the question for any global executive is this: If the CIA asks you for information about your trip to Cuba or Libya or China, what should you do? Many people, impelled by feelings of patriotism, are happy to help. But things get murky quickly...
Armed with secret wiretap approvals and search warrants, agents mounted intensive electronic and physical surveillance of Hanssen. They snooped into his computer files, decoded encrypted messages, read his Palm Pilot. On Dec. 12 they spotted him driving four times past the sign used to signal a drop, just a mile from his home. On Dec. 26 they watched him do it again, as he walked right up to the signpost with a flashlight to sweep its beam in search of the adhesive-tape signal, then raise his arms in a gesture of disgust. On Jan. 12 Hanssen was reassigned...
...second round of subpoenas, is the same crowd that got nowhere on Whitewater, Filegate, Travelgate and a raft of other Clinton scandals over the years. More ominous for Clinton is the inquiry that U.S. Attorney White announced last week in New York. Absent an immunized witness or a wiretap, legal experts don't expect a bribery indictment. But if it could be proved that Rich, who claims foreign citizenship, gave his ex-wife the money she donated to Clinton, that could violate campaign-finance laws. At a minimum, a federal investigation could bedevil Clinton for months or even years...
Carnivore is not designed to monitor everything you do--and that's why it's so dangerous. In addition to full wiretaps, which require a court finding of probable cause that a serious felony has been committed, U.S. law allows for a limited wiretap in which the phone company provides the government with the target's phone records. This limited tap must be granted whenever it would be "relevant to an ongoing criminal investigation"--essentially, whenever the government wants...