, 2006-01-11
U.S. wiretapping laws, FISA and Presidential powers given to the NSA to intercept communications make for interesting times when coupled with technology. What are the issues surrounding privacy, search, seizure and surveillance?
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Wiretapping, FISA, and the NSA
2006-01-12
Mark (1 replies)
Mark (1 replies)
- For this very reason, there are provisions in place to get a warrant up to 72 hours after the wiretap was done. Get the warrant, the evidence is admissible in court. Fail to get the warrant, and you have to throw out the evidence. The NSA isn't even bothering to get these post-facto warrants.
Note also that wiretap warrants are pretty much rubber-stamped.
- You get a warrant to tap someone's phone line, not a warrant to listen to a particular conversation, when you notice them make the call. wiretap operations (in the classical sense, of investigating people against whom there exists evidence of an actual crime) are long term things. It takes a day or two to get the warrant, and then the wiretap stays on the line for months on end.
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