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From: Lloyd Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: More Funding for FBI Snooping
Date: Monday, June 26, 2000 10:19 PM
From: Howard Rothenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SNET: More Funding for FBI Snooping
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More Funding for FBI Snooping
by Declan McCullagh
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,37183,00
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3:00 a.m. Jun. 24, 2000 PDT
WASHINGTON -- Congress is poised to give the FBI
more money for wiretapping than even its director,
Louis Freeh, had hoped for.
The proposed 2001 budget approved by a House panel
doles out an unprecedented $282 million to rewire
U.S. telephone networks to make them readily
snoopable, edging closer to the
half-billion-dollar estimated price tag for the
project. That's $70 million more than the FBI and
the Clinton administration had requested. The 1994
Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act
requires telephone companies to modify their
networks so police can eavesdrop when necessary --
and the feds pay for the changes.
The reason for Congress's unexpected largesse?
"The (appropriations) committee believes that
implementation of CALEA is long overdue. The
committee notes that Congress expected CALEA
implementation to be achieved over two years ago,"
the committee report says. "However, due to
disagreements between law enforcement and
industry, that deadline was not met. As a result,
law enforcement's ability to effectively counter
threats of terrorism, drug trafficking, and other
serious crimes has been seriously eroded."
Fortunately -- at least from Congress'
perspective -- industry and law enforcement cut a
deal, and there should be no further delays.
A proposal to decrease the CALEA cash by $28
million and spend it instead on lobster fisheries
in the Long Island Sound (no, really) was defeated
in committee, 28-24.
The committee did not agree with the White House
that half of that money should be funneled through
the Defense Department for "national security"
reasons, as Wired News reported in February. All
of it will go to the Justice Department instead.
The appropriations measure, part of the Commerce,
Justice, and State spending bill, is currently on
the House floor.
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More cash to fight MS: Microsoft, look out.
The Justice Department's antitrust division, busy
pulling long hours in its attempt to break up the
world's largest software company, is about to get
more money.
The same spending bill hands the division $113.3
million for the fiscal year beginning in October
2000. That's $3.3 million above the current year
appropriation, although more than $20.7 million
below the Clinton administration's request.
Microsoft has lobbied to reduce the overall
antitrust division budget.
A motion to boost the DOJ antitrust and FTC --
which shares that responsibility -- budgets by a
total of $51 million was defeated in committee by
a 26-19 vote.
The spending bill is still open to amendments on
the House floor. The 2001 fiscal year begins
October 2000.
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