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 Transcript: FBI
Director on
Surveillance of
'Illegal' Internet
Activity
When the FBI
suggested that it
should be able to
perform wide-scale
Internet monitoring
to detect "illegal
activity" on
Wednesday, the
bureau raised more
questions than it
answered.
To help clear things
up, we're providing
the transcript of
FBI Director Robert
Mueller's exchange
at a House of
Representatives
hearing with Rep.
Darrell Issa, a
California
Republican. Issa
made his fortune by
founding Directed
Electronics, a
publicly traded
company that sells
car alarms and home
theater
loudspeakers.
Issa also is a
member of the House
Intelligence
Committee, which is
holding a closed
hearing on Thursday
devoted to the Bush
administration's
so-called Cyber
Initiative. In
January, President
Bush signed a pair
of secret
orders--National
Security
Presidential
Directive
54/Homeland Security
Presidential
Directive 23--that
apparently deal with
detecting and
preventing Internet
disruptions.
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From
the House
Intelligence
Committee,
which
held a
closed
hearing
on
Thursday
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.
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Here's the relevant
section of the
transcript from the
House Judiciary
hearing on
Wednesday:
Transcript
Plus Read More Here
Related to Legal
Concerns Over FBI's
Net surveillance
proposal
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2008 11:59 pm EST |
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