FBI Warrant Requests Up 85 Percent

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(AP) The number of secret surveillance warrants sought by the FBI has increased 85 percent in the past three years, a pace that has outstripped the Justice Department's ability to quickly process them.

Even after warrants are approved, the FBI often does not have enough agents or other personnel with the expertise to conduct the surveillance. The FBI still is trying to build a cadre of translators who can understand conversations that are intercepted in such languages as Arabic, Pashto and Farsi.

These findings are among those of investigators for the commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks, which has harshly criticized the intelligence-gathering efforts of the CIA and FBI.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/16/terror/main612305.shtml

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1. sweet, so i know someone's reading over my shoulder!

rock on! i feel so special.

they must be absolutely bamboozeled by my selection of library books. i suggest random checking out of stuff just to waste their time. preferrably middle eastern poetry (written in native tongue of course) along with right-wing jibberish just to baffle them. tee hee.

ps: mahmoud darwish is a worthwhile palestinian poet, FYI