"F.B.I. Data Mining Reached Beyond Initial Targets" - NYT

[demoleft]

"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 patterns of the associates of Americans who had come under suspicion, according to newly obtained bureau records.
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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 was in contact with. The bureau stopped the practice early this year in part because of broader questions raised about its aggressive use of the records demands, which are known as national security letters, officials said."

New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/09/washington/09fbi.html?ei=5088&en=e0b585b2f0f51aa5&ex=1346990400&adxnnl=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1189371580-/0JOfo9cpvXwJYhlgaFgBw

It's not news, is it?!

[L. Coyote]

1. This was on NPR this morning too.

[On the Road]

2. "Reached Beyond Initial Targets" Indeed!

There's no end of euphemisms to deemphasize completely illegal behavior.

[L. Coyote]

3. When will "LIE" enter the journalism lexicon? Not to mention "illegal" and "criminal" conduct!

[Octafish]

4. kick NT