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U.S. Senate May Vote on Pretexting Bill This Week

Anne Broache writes on C|Net News:

Before politicians go home for the year at the end of the week, the U.S. Senate may vote to generally prohibit telephone "pretexting," a stealthy and usually fraudulent investigative technique made famous by a high-profile probe of media leaks at Hewlett-Packard.

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is using a procedure known as "hotlining," which would allow an already approved House of Representatives bill targeting pretexting to clear the Senate without debate and head to the president's desk to be signed into law. If no senators raise objections, the bill could be added to the Senate calendar and approved with a batch of other noncontentious items as soon as Thursday, a Republican leadership aide said.

posted by Fergie @ 12/07/2006 12:28:00 PM