FBI’s phone record demands cast wide net
San Francisco Chronicle
09/09/07
The FBI cast a much wider net in its terrorism investigations than it has previously acknowledged by relying on telecommunications companies to analyze phone calls of the associates of Americans who had come under suspicion, according to newly obtained bureau records. The documents indicate that the Federal Bureau of Investigation used secret demands for records to obtain data not only on individuals it saw as targets but also details on their ‘community of interest’ — the network of people the target in turn was in contact with. The bureau stopped the practice early this year in part because of broader questions raised about its aggressive use of the records demands, which are known as national security letters, officials said. … The FBI declined to say exactly what data had been turned over. It was limited to people and phone numbers ‘once removed’ from the actual target of the national security letters, said a government official who spoke on condition of anonymity because of a continuing review by the Justice Department...
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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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09/09/07
The FBI cast a much wider net in its terrorism investigations than it has previously acknowledged by relying on telecommunications companies to analyze phone calls of the associates of Americans who had come under suspicion, according to newly obtained bureau records. The documents indicate that the Federal Bureau of Investigation used secret demands for records to obtain data not only on individuals it saw as targets but also details on their ‘community of interest’ — the network of people the target in turn was in contact with. The bureau stopped the practice early this year in part because of broader questions raised about its aggressive use of the records demands, which are known as national security letters, officials said. … The FBI declined to say exactly what data had been turned over. It was limited to people and phone numbers ‘once removed’ from the actual target of the national security letters, said a government official who spoke on condition of anonymity because of a continuing review by the Justice Department...
http://tinyurl.com/29woxr
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=phone+record
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