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Bait & Switch: The NSA Grab for Domestic Wiretap Infrastructure

Ryan Singel writes on Threat Level:

The U.S. intelligence community's attempts to clarify its complaints to Congress that the nation's privacy protections hindered the NSA's spying on Iraqis suspected of kidnapping American soldiers actually not only demonstrates the intelligence community's bureaucratic slowness, but also the breadth of the powers temporarily handed to them by Congress this summer and the misleading rhetorical tricks it will play to get that power permanently.

posted by Fergie @ 10/01/2007 07:28:00 PM