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Spying Fight about e-Mails, Not Phone Calls, DoJ Reveals

Ryan Singel writes on Threat Level:

In the end, it turns out it's all about the emails.

The fight in Congress and the big push for expanded wiretapping powers has nothing to do with intercepting foreign-to-foreign phone calls inside the United States without a court order. In fact, it turns out that the nation's secret wiretapping court is fine with that.

That extraordinary admission came from Assistant Attorney General for National Security Kenneth Wainstein at a breakfast on Monday, according to the Washington Post.

posted by Fergie @ 3/04/2008 03:32:00 PM