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...chief justice selects judges to serve on various judicial committees, including the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, often called the “wiretap court.” Beyond that, the chief justice holds a variety of other duties, including presiding at impeachment hearings, swearing in the President, and chairing the Judicial Conference of the United States, the top administrative body of the federal court system...
...number of Internet phone users is expected to triple this year, to 2.8 million, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) last week responded to a petition from the FBI and other agencies by requiring most VOIP providers to install within 18 months software that allows authorized law enforcement to wiretap conversations. Industry leader Vonage, which controls a majority of the VOIP market, is on track to enable such wiretaps by the end of the year, a process it started before the government ruling. "From our standpoint," says Vonage senior V.P. Brooke Schulz, "it is an important thing...
...away our rights of free speech and freedom from unwarranted government searches or seizures, the PATRIOT Act simply applies to anti-terrorism procedures the long-standing practices used in standard policing. Detractors might be hard-pressed to explain why, prior to the Act, authorities could apply for a roving wiretap (allowing surveillance over all a suspect’s communications) if a drug dealer switched cell-phones but could not if a suspected terrorist did the same. Similarly, the controversial “sneak and peek” provision of the Act—which grants warrants allowing officials...
Michael Shelby, the U.S. Attorney in Houston, says the Zetas' military discipline, arsenal and wiretap capability make them more dangerous than other drug groups. Adds Jos Luis Santiago Vasconcelos, Mexico's deputy attorney general for organized crime: "You had soldiers from an lite force transferring all the heavy military mystique--the honor, valor, loyalty--to a drug trafficker." After the government captured Crdenas in 2003, the Zetas had to strike out more on their own. They launched a lethal campaign against Mexican authorities and rival traffickers gunning for control over Crdenas' former trafficking routes. Mexican officials insist...
...question we must ask is, does the concern of protecting trade secrets give way as the wiretap concerns did? The answer appears intuitively to be “sometimes...