excerpted from today's Cato Daily Dispatch

alan · May 29, 2002, 11:09 PM

Is this an example of Director Meuller's "new" FBI??

FBI'S CARNIVORE MAY HAVE BUNGLED BIN LADEN INVESTIGATION

The FBI mishandled a surveillance operation involving Osama bin Laden's
terror network two years ago because of technical problems with the
controversial Carnivore e-mail program, part of a "pattern" indicating
that the FBI was unable to manage its intelligence wiretaps, according to
The Washington Post. (
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24213-2002May28.html )

An attempt in March 2000 to secretly monitor the e-mail of an unidentified
suspect went awry when the Carnivore program retrieved communications from
other parties as well, according to the memo, which was obtained by the
Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), a Washington-based advocacy
group opposed to the technology.

Carnivore, which has been renamed DCS1000, is a computer program that
allows investigators to capture e-mails sent to and from criminal and
terrorist suspects. But the newly released memo indicates that, in at
least one case, the program also retrieved e-mails from innocent people
not involved in the investigation.

In "How Big Brother Began," ( http://www.cato.org/dailys/11-25-97.html )
Solveig Singleton writes that seemingly innocuous measures by government
to fight crime can lead to an Orwellian state. In "The Feds and Your
Privacy," ( http://www.cato.org/dailys/09-27-00.html ) Lucas Mast writes,
"if the FBI's refusal to rein in its 'Carnivore' e-mail surveillance
system is any indication of government willingness to vigilantly defend
our privacy, we have great cause for concern." Resources on online privacy
are available at the Cato Web site. (
http://www.cato.org/tech/privacy.html )

May 29, 2002, 11:09 PM	#1
alan Senior Member Join Date: June 7, 1999 Posts: 3,847	excerpted from today's Cato Daily Dispatch Is this an example of Director Meuller's "new" FBI?? FBI'S CARNIVORE MAY HAVE BUNGLED BIN LADEN INVESTIGATION The FBI mishandled a surveillance operation involving Osama bin Laden's terror network two years ago because of technical problems with the controversial Carnivore e-mail program, part of a "pattern" indicating that the FBI was unable to manage its intelligence wiretaps, according to The Washington Post. ( http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24213-2002May28.html ) An attempt in March 2000 to secretly monitor the e-mail of an unidentified suspect went awry when the Carnivore program retrieved communications from other parties as well, according to the memo, which was obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), a Washington-based advocacy group opposed to the technology. Carnivore, which has been renamed DCS1000, is a computer program that allows investigators to capture e-mails sent to and from criminal and terrorist suspects. But the newly released memo indicates that, in at least one case, the program also retrieved e-mails from innocent people not involved in the investigation. In "How Big Brother Began," ( http://www.cato.org/dailys/11-25-97.html ) Solveig Singleton writes that seemingly innocuous measures by government to fight crime can lead to an Orwellian state. In "The Feds and Your Privacy," ( http://www.cato.org/dailys/09-27-00.html ) Lucas Mast writes, "if the FBI's refusal to rein in its 'Carnivore' e-mail surveillance system is any indication of government willingness to vigilantly defend our privacy, we have great cause for concern." Resources on online privacy are available at the Cato Web site. ( http://www.cato.org/tech/privacy.html )