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 FBI
Can Target Internet Gambling
Through Cyber
Initiative
The
White House, FBI and
Congress will step
up their efforts to
combat i-gaming -
even through
warrant-less
monitoring - based
on comments from the
House Intelligence
Committee, which
held a closed
hearing on April
24th devoted to the
Bush
administration’s
so-called Cyber
Initiative:
Rep. Darrell Issa
(R-CA): If you go
into a place and
there’s a crime
actively being
committed, let’s say
there’s a bookie
joint, and there’s
tens of thousands of
illegal transactions
going on every
minute. And you know
that. And you have
proof of that. You
don’t question your
ability to go in and
to harvest the fruit
of all the
activities in there,
is that correct?
Robert Mueller (FBI
Director): That’s
correct.
Joe Brennan, Jr of
iMEGA.org, a
trade organization
devoted to Internet
privacy, had this to
say about the recent
disclosure:
"For those in
the i-gaming
industry who
have been
cheered by the
legislative
efforts of Rep.
Barney Frank and
others, to
loosen the US
government's
grip on the
leisure activity of
online poker,
casino and
sports betting,
this has to be a
chilling
revelation.
Clearly efforts
have to be
stepped up even
more to combat
this further
intrusion by the
government on
our digital
civil rights.
For our part,
iMEGA and our
members are
continuing this
battle in the
Third Circuit
Court of
Appeals, and by
educating the
public and
government as to
how dangerous a
precedent is
being set by
these violations
of our rights."
Joe Brennan
Jr., Chairman
and CEO of iMEGA
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