If You Were Wiretapped, So Were Your Family & Friends

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/09/washington/09fbi.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

F.B.I. Data Mining Reached Beyond Target Suspects


By ERIC LICHTBLAU
Published: September 9, 2007
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 — The F.B.I. cast a much wider net in its terrorism investigations than it has previously acknowledged by relying on telecommunications companies to analyze phone-call and e-mail patterns of the associates of Americans who had come under suspicion, according to newly obtained bureau records.

The documents indicate that the Federal Bureau of Investigation used secret demands for records to obtain data not only on individuals it saw as targets but also details on their “community of interest” — the network of people that the target in turn was in contact with. The bureau recently stopped the practice in part because of broader questions raised about its aggressive use of the records demands, which are known as national security letters, officials said Friday after being asked about it.

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1. Does this article indicate whether or not the secret requests were

just for phone and computer records. Can you imagine peoples medical information being examined by this group? O god there is no end to the damage.