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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.'"

6 of 166 comments (clear)

  1. Re:This is just one more reason... by mpontes · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey, why does your IP resolve to a .gov hostname? *ducks*

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  2. Re:sounds like... by Jeff+DeMaagd · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Last time I checked they had these magical things called wiretaps before 2001.

    Right. The problem really is that there USED to be judicial oversight. No more. Supporters of PATRIOT claim it's never been abused, thus it's not a problem.

  3. Re:Oops, wrong line... by wirehead_rick · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Really. Especially if for X reason you are decided to be a terrorist and get shipped off to Gitmo.

    No notice to family. No procedures. They just come in grab you and send you off. No phone call to a lawyer. No reasons. Just get hauled off into the gulag for no reason (except to the FBI's whims - say you have a contrarian political view and are deemed a _political_ threat).

    The long slope into a blatent facist state we have embarked on.

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  4. Re:Who cares? by DrSkwid · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Show me a man that has never broken the law and I'll show you a man that has never driven a car.

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  5. Re:The slashdot view by corsec67 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The people enforcing the laws NEED to be held to a higher standard, because they have more power than a common citizen.

    With power comes responsibility. If the FBI could get away with wiretapping the wrong person, how long before they wiretap anyone?

    The question shouldn't be why not allow the police to do something, but should they be allowed to do something with the approiate oversight?

    Just because I don't have anything to hide doesn't mean I shouldn't hide my life, using encryption and such.

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  6. Oblig. bash.org quote by eyal · · Score: 5, Funny

    #88575 +(4830)- [X]

    <Stormrider> I should bomb something
    <Stormrider> ...and it's off the cuff remarks like that that are the reason I don't log chats
    <Stormrider> Just in case the FBI ever needs anything on me
    <Elzie_Ann> I'm sure they can just get it from someone who DOES log chats.
    *** FBI has joined #gamecubecafe
    <FBI> We saw it anyway.
    *** FBI has quit IRC (Quit: )