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..
