Memory Hole: 2005 Wiretap Report Expunged

[Hissyspit]

The Memory Hole
http://www.thememoryhole.org/
Russ Kick, publisher and editor
04 May 2006

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The following material has been added:

*** Expunged 2005 Report on Domestic Wiretaps ***
exclusive: Administrative Office of the US Courts removes report about wiretaps. The Memory Hole restores it
http://www.thememoryhole.org/

"2005 Wiretap Report" from the Administrative Office of the United States Courts. Released 01 May 2006.

This is the main body of the original, uncensored version that was pulled from the Web.
Click here for the report
(Acrobat/PDF format | 11 pages | 125K)

Right-click to save the file to your hard drive
Mac users: Control-click to save

Introduction

>>> Each April, the Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts is required by federal law to submit to Congress a report detailing the number of federal and state wiretaps approved or authorized during the previous calendar year. On 01 May 2006, the Office posted this report here: www.uscourts.gov/wiretap05/contents.html

One PDF file contained the main body of the report, and multiple separate PDFs contained the 9 text tables and 4 appendix tables.

A press release about the report is here.

On the evening of 03 May, a librarian reported on an email discussion list that all the files had been deleted from the US Courts website. A copy was not in Google's cache, although the cache did show a page with a deleted link to the 2005 report.

I contacted several journalists who had written about the report to see if they still had a copy of it on their hard drives. They didn't, but on 04 May, one of the reporters called the US Courts' press officer, who said that the report had been yanked because it contained information that is still under judicial seal. A sanitized version of the report is expected to be posted soon.

Soon after I contacted Marc Rotenberg of the Electronic Privacy Information Center about this, Sherwin Siy of EPIC kindly emailed the body of the original, uncensored report, which he had downloaded and saved. It is posted above.

[Selatius]

1. Wow, how close we've come to Orwell's worst nightmare. n/t

[OneBlueSky]

2. Memory Hole performs a great service . . .

they're stashing important online documents that might later be deleted . . . they've stored tons of stuff . . .

[annabanana]

4. I hope their database is offshore.. . . . . . . eom

[Hissyspit]

3. kick n/t

[dusty64]

5. Interesting catch.

Nothing surprises me anymore.