F.B.I. Gained Unauthorized Access to E-Mail

F.B.I. Gained Unauthorized Access to E-Mail

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F.B.I. Gained Unauthorized Access to E-Mail Monty Solomon 02-20-2008
Posted by Monty Solomon on February 20, 2008, 3:28 pm
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F.B.I. Gained Unauthorized Access to E-Mail

By ERIC LICHTBLAU
The New York Times
February 17, 2008

WASHINGTON - A technical glitch gave the F.B.I. access to the e-mail
messages from an entire computer network - perhaps hundreds of
accounts or more - instead of simply the lone e-mail address that was
approved by a secret intelligence court as part of a national
security investigation, according to an internal report of the 2006
episode.

F.B.I. officials blamed an "apparent miscommunication" with the
unnamed Internet provider, which mistakenly turned over all the
e-mail from a small e-mail domain for which it served as host. The
records were ultimately destroyed, officials said.

Bureau officials noticed a "surge" in the e-mail activity they were
monitoring and realized that the provider had mistakenly set its
filtering equipment to trap far more data than a judge had actually
authorized.

The episode is an unusual example of what has become a regular if
little-noticed occurrence, as American officials have expanded their
technological tools: government officials, or the private companies
they rely on for surveillance operations, sometimes foul up their
instructions about what they can and cannot collect.

The problem has received no discussion as part of the fierce debate
in Congress about whether to expand the government's wiretapping
authorities and give legal immunity to private telecommunications
companies that have helped in those operations.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/17/washington/17fisa.html?ex=1360990800&en=e276e1dbd2962bc6&ei=5090


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