TMI phones also had to be equipped with
geo-positioning technology so the FBI could pinpoint a suspect's location when he made 
a
call. 

This was crucial, as Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder wrote in a June 14, 1999,
letter to FCC Chairman William Kennard. "Finding out that a drug deal, murder or
bombing is about to occur, without having any indication of the location of the 
criminal is
only marginally useful," he wrote. Unless TMI addressed the shortcomings, Mr. Holder
wrote, its phones would become "a communication tool of choice among drug dealers,
organized crime and terrorist groups." 

http://cryptome.org/carnivore-mega.htm

So much for the "its for 911" sham..


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