http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/ap/20011213/pl/intelligence_congress_8.html House Passes Intelligence Bill 2001-12-13 07:10:16 WASHINGTON (AP) - A new intelligence bill passed unanimously by the House places new emphasis on traditional human spy networks in combatting terrorism. It would increase spending by 8 percent - higher than the 7 percent President Bush sought. Besides focusing new attention and funding on human spies, it aims to increase the portion of collected data that gets analyzed and turned into useful information. [...] The bill would also make it easier to get a roving wiretap, amending a law that requires agents to list the instrument's location. Since roving wiretaps are aimed at moving objects such as cell phones, locations keep changing. Under the bill, if agents don't know where it is, they would not have to list it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
