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Gosh, I wonder what "law" is being invoked?
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Feds enlist ISPs in terrorist probe
September 13, 2001 Posted: 3:46 PM EDT (1946 GMT)
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By Richard Stenger
CNN
(CNN) -- Major Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the United States said
Thursday they are cooperating with federal authorities in the investigation
of the terrorist attack on New York and Washington.
The FBI served EarthLink with a search warrant to gather electronic
information relating to national security, said Dan Greenfield, spokesperson
for the Atlanta, Georgia-based ISP.
"We received on Tuesday an FISA order," said Greenfield, referring to the
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which provides guidelines for certain
kinds of secret investigations of the FBI, CIA, the National Security Agency
and a handful of other federal organizations.
"You cannot necessarily make the assumption that it was around events on
Tuesday," Greenfield added. "We are cooperating with the FBI and other
officials on any assistance they need," he said, declining to elaborate.
Representatives of many top ISPs said that their companies had been working
with U.S. authorities in the wake of the hijackings and air assault Tuesday.
But none gave any specifics.
"We have been approached by investigators. We did cooperate and provided
information that was requested," said Nicholas Graham, a spokesperson for
America Online, based in Dulles, Virginia.
"We routinely cooperate with authorities, from the local to the state to the
national level. This investigation is no different," he said.
Alison Bowan of Excite@Home said that the Redwood City, California-based ISP
was been in contact with federal law enforcement agents.
"I can't elaborate on which branch. We are cooperating fully based on the law
on our policies," she said.
Use of 'Carnivore?
Greenfield said EarthLink did not install any so-called "Carnivore" boxes on
its servers, which the FBI uses to monitor electronic correspondences of
suspected criminals.
Likewise, other ISPs said that they did not use the Carnivore system.
Greenfield and other ISP reps hastened to add that their companies were
adhering to internal guidelines that protect the privacy of their
subscribers.
The FBI, as is its custom, declined to confirm or comment on the
investigation. But one U.S. government official said that they "were not
ruling out any legal investigative techniques right now."
Early Tuesday, hijackers took control of four commercial airliners. Within
the span of an hour, two crashed into the World Trade Center twin towers, one
slammed into the headquarters of the U.S. military, and another went down in
rural Pennsylvania. Some believe that the last aircraft had an intended
target in Washington, D.C.
Federal authorities said Thursday that they had identified at least 18 people
who took part in the hijackings, some from Arab nations in the Middle East.
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