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  • From: B <beeline AT mindspring.com>
  • To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: [Fwd: FC: Senate votes to permit warrantless Net-wiretaps, Carnivore use]
  • Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 20:13:46 -0400


I certainly hope that we don't allow FUD to trump the Bill of Rights.

Declan McCullagh wrote:
>
> Text of the Hatch-Feinstein "Combating Terrorism Act of 2001":
> http://www.politechbot.com/docs/cta.091401.html
>
> Muddled debate over the amendment:
> http://www.fas.org/sgp/congress/2001/s091301.html
>
> -Declan
>
> ********
>
> http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46852,00.html
>
> Senate OKs FBI Net Spying
> By Declan McCullagh (declan AT wired.com)
> 12:55 p.m. Sep. 14, 2001 PDT
>
> WASHINGTON -- FBI agents soon may be able to spy on Internet users
> legally without a court order.
>
> On Thursday evening, two days after the worst terrorist attack in U.S.
> history, the Senate approved the "Combating Terrorism Act of 2001,"
> which enhances police wiretap powers and permits monitoring in more
> situations.
>
> The measure, proposed by Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Dianne Feinstein
> (D-California), says any U.S. attorney or state attorney general can
> order the installation of the FBI's Carnivore surveillance system.
> Previously, there were stiffer restrictions on Carnivore and other
> Internet surveillance techniques.
>
> Its bipartisan sponsors argue that such laws are necessary to thwart
> terrorism. "It is essential that we give our law enforcement
> authorities every possible tool to search out and bring to justice
> those individuals who have brought such indiscriminate death into our
> backyard," Hatch said during the debate on the Senate floor.
>
> [...]
>
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