FBI Recorded 27 Million FISA 'Sessions' in 2006
Ryan Singel, Wired Blog
EFF FOIA documents show that the FBI intercepted 27,728,675 "sessions" in fiscal year 2006 through surveillance technology that monitors telephone communications of suspected spies and terrorists. In contrast, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court approved a mere 2,176 FBI requests for court-ordered surveillance in 2006.
At the end of 2006, the FBI's Telecommunications Intercept and Collection Technology Unit compiled an end-of-the-year report touting its accomplishments to management, a report that was recently unearthed via an open government request from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Strikingly, the report said that the FBI's software for recording telephone surveillance of suspected spies and terrorists intercepted 27,728,675 sessions.
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