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Washington Post's coverage: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3704-2002Oct9.html --- From: "Ted Bridis" <tbridis@ap.org> To: <declan@well.com> Subject: FISA Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 14:47:52 -0400 Organization: The Associated Press THE WHITE HOUSE REGULAR BRIEFING BRIEFER: ARI FLEISCHER, WHITE HOUSE SPOKESMAN LOCATION: WHITE HOUSE BRIEFING ROOM, WASHINGTON, D.C. TIME: 12:53 P.M. EDT DATE: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2002 Q The FISA court chastised the FBI for misrepresenting a lot of what they are doing with, wiretaps, et cetera. There were 75 occurrences. Now there is a memo that has -- has been -- has in Congress. And the question is, the president meets with the FBI pretty much every day. Has he decided to take an active interest in this, or is he going to take an active interest in some of the overreaches of the FBI? MR. FLEISCHER: The president has made it clear -- and he believes the FBI is doing this -- about the importance of doing two things and doing them well. One is protecting the American people from the risks that we face from terrorists who would use our open system to come here and bring harm to people; and secondly, to do it within the Constitution because it's the Constitution, after all, that fundamentally gives us our greatest protections. And that is the challenge that law enforcement faces at all times. And the president is confident the FBI is doing it well. http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/doj/fisa/ec.pdf http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2121-2002Oct9.html http://www.newseum.org/media/dfp/pdf/NV_LVRJ.pdf FBI Memo Details Pre-9/11 Sloppiness By Ted Bridis Associated Press Writer Wednesday, October 9, 2002; 4:50 PM WASHINGTON -- FBI agents illegally videotaped suspects, intercepted e-mails without court permission and recorded the wrong phone conversations during sensitive terrorism and espionage investigations, according to an internal memorandum detailing serious lapses inside the FBI more than a year before the Sept. 11 attacks. The blunders - roughly 15 over the first three months of 2000 - were never made public but garnered the attention of the "highest levels of management" inside FBI, said the memo written by senior bureau lawyers and obtained by The Associated Press. Lawmakers reviewing FBI missteps preceding the terror attacks expressed surprise Wednesday at the extent of errors detailed in the memo, which focused on sensitive cases requiring warrants under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The mistakes extend beyond those criticized in a rare public decision this summer by the secretive U.S. court that oversees the surveillance warrants. That court admonished the FBI for providing inaccurate information in warrant applications. The April 2000 memo - marked "immediate" and classified as "secret" - describes different problems from those cited by the court. It describes agents conducting unauthorized searches, writing warrants with wrong addresses and allowing "overruns" of electronic surveillance operations beyond their legal deadline. "The level of incompetence here is egregious," said Rep. William D. Delahunt, D-Mass., a member of the House Judiciary Committee who obtained the memo from the FBI and provided it to AP. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ Recent CNET News.com articles: http://news.search.com/search?q=declan -------------------------------------------------------------------------