LowerCaseRepublican Posted October 1, 2005 Share Posted October 1, 2005 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,170940,00.html The FBI would not say how often these mistakes happen. And, though any incriminating evidence mistakenly collected is not legally admissible in a criminal case, there is no way of knowing whether it is used to begin an investigation. Parts of the Patriot Act, including a section on "roving wiretaps," expire in December. Such wiretaps allow the FBI to get permission from a secret federal court to listen in on any phone line or monitor any Internet account that a terrorism suspect may be using, whether or not others who are not suspects also regularly use it. The bureau's acknowledgment that it makes mistakes in some wiretaps — although not specifically roving wiretaps — came in a recent Justice Department inspector general's report on the FBI's backlog of intercepted but unreviewed foreign-language conversations. The 38,514 untranslated hours included an undetermined number from what the FBI called "collections of materials from the wrong sources due to technical problems." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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