nytimes.com - 11/20/2008
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Raymond W. Kelly, the New York police commissioner, accused federal agencies of blocking the police's surveillance requests.
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While the letters do not specifically identify the
target of the eavesdropping requests, Mr. Mukasey said that
the Police Department had sought authority in one of them to eavesdrop on “numerous communications facilities” without providing an adequate basis for their requests. Some officials who ...
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Bringing The War On Terror Home
JustOneMinute —
The NY Times front-pages (below the fold) a dispute on eavesdropping between the Justice Dept and the NYPD. New York's Finest think that the Feds are too cautious in presenting and approving FISA applications for surveillance of terrorism suspects, thereby endangering the greatest city in the world. The Times duly notes that the Feds are unlikely to become more aggressive in their use of surveillance under Obama. Hey - extremisim in the defense of civil liberties is no vice, yes? And if the cost is a few thousand dead New Yorkers, well, freedom has its price. Here we go: WASHINGTON — An effort by the New York Police Department to get broader latitude to eavesdrop on ...
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Patterico's Pontifications —
[Guest post by DRJ]
On December 16, 2005, the New York Times published an article that leaked previously undisclosed information regarding Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) requests, including details of how the Bush Administration authorized intelligence sources to monitor conversations between foreign terrorism suspects and people in the United States beginning in 2002. The article stated that the “secret court has turned down only a small number of requests over the years.”
Bush critics like Jeffrey Toobin suggested the FISA court’s rare refusals showed the Bush Administration had created a rubber stamp ...
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