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Sorry, Wrong Wiretap

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the saying-oops-makes-it-ok dept.

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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  1. What a load... by T_ConXI · · Score: 0, Troll

    What a load. The government dumps so much money into the groups in the effort of making the US safer, and they can't even get the right number...

  2. Who cares? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    So what? My number may get tapped once in a while.

    I'm not doing anything illegal or something someone could extort me with. For all I care, FBI may tape all may phone conversations. Who gives a shit?