Sorry, Wrong Wiretap

Rick Zeman writes "CNN is covering a little-mentioned Inspector General's report which mentions that the FBI 'sometimes gets the wrong number when it intercepts conversations in terrorism investigations' due to various reasons, and that 'The FBI could not say Friday whether people are notified that their conversations were mistakenly intercepted or whether wrongly tapped telephone numbers were deleted from bureau records.'"

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Sorry, Wrong Wiretap

[falconwolf]

The FBI could not say Friday whether people are notified that their conversations were mistakenly intercepted or whether wrongly tapped telephone numbers were deleted from bureau records.

Why should they tell people their phones were tapped and conversations recorded? I'd bet that the people involved would get vocal about wiretaps.

use of warrants issued by a court that operates in secret under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

They use secret courts so they aren't accountable to the people who pay their salary, the taxpayers.

Falcon