Thursday, November 20, 2008
City cops tangling with Feds over spying on you
For the record, you will be classified as a terrist suspect. As such the cops want to be able to surveil you as easily as the FBI can and the FBI is saying of that privilege, no, mine!
An effort by the New York Police Department to get broader latitude to eavesdrop on terrorism suspects has run into sharp resistance from the Justice Department in a bitter struggle that has left the police commissioner and the attorney general accusing each other of putting the public at risk.So, who knew the Feds had standards?
The Police Department, with the largest municipal counterterrorism operation in the country, wants the Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to loosen their approach to the federal law that governs electronic surveillance. But federal officials have refused to relax the standards, and have said requests submitted by the department could actually jeopardize surveillance efforts by casting doubt on their legality.
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