But Walsh not only confirmed that the FBI can perform the searches itself, she said the bureau does not tally how many communications searches for Americans' data it performs - and apparently mingles these international communications involving Americans with more traditional forms of legally acquired communications, confounding an accounting.
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And the NSA may still be able to "reverse target" Americans' communications by searching through the content of emails or phone calls they have exchanged with foreigners.
The privacy board recommended that the administration rein that program in, too -- by requiring more documentation before Americans' communications are searched, as well as more involvement from a foreign surveillance court -- but the agency has moved slowly.
This becomes all the more problematic when you consider that the law does not require the intelligence agencies to get a warrant before searching through communications collected under section 702 to find the communications of individual Americans.
The New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute asserted it may give congressional approval to the agency's practice of searching Americans' communications abroad solely because they are "about" a surveillance target -- not with one.
B1 Attorney General John Ashcroft outlines proposals that Congress will be asked to approve to expand government ability to intercept communications and to search and seize.
Jameel Jaffer, a senior lawyer at the A.C.L.U., said Wednesday that such "dragnet surveillance will be poisonous to the freedoms of inquiry and association" because people who know that their communications will be searched will change their behavior.
Eventually, U.S. Attorney Donald Stern got a court order for a wiretap, the first ever obtained to search communications over a computer network.
Relevant media and conference proceedings and personal communications were also searched.
