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Other forms of monitoring — of conversations inside cars, say — were subject to different rules, he said.
More than 7 in 10 backed government monitoring of conversations between suspected terrorists in jail and their lawyers.
More troubling to some is a Justice Department policy issued last fall that authorizes monitoring of conversations between defense lawyers and their imprisoned but not necessarily convicted clients.
The administration has cited preventing another terrorist attack as its primary goal and the fundamental rationale for many of its actions, including the questioning of Middle Eastern immigrants and the monitoring of conversations between suspected terrorists in jail and their lawyers.
He said the president's actions, including the questioning of thousands of men from Middle Eastern countries, the detention of more than 600 people on immigration and criminal charges, and the monitoring of conversations between lawyers and some defendants, were all intended to prevent future terrorist acts.
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Federal laws against wiretapping prevent monitoring of employee conversations under most circumstances, but a 1986 law explicitly permits businesses to monitor how employees use other communications equipment.
Irwin H. Schwartz, a Seattle lawyer who is president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, said his organization of 30,000 lawyers was developing a strategy for expected challenges to Mr. Ashcroft's policy permitting the monitoring of some conversations between lawyers and their clients.
They have a reasonable fear of government monitoring of sensitive conversations, based on the law's vacuum-cleaner approach to surveillance and the identities and locations of their contacts.
The issue does not often arise today with the monitoring of telephone conversations because when a law enforcement authority wants to see a list of telephone calls made by a suspect, the agent gets an order from a magistrate, presents the order to a telephone company, and the company then turns over the list.
Two companies, Alterian and Zeta Interactive, reported on Monday that their monitoring of online conversations about Super Bowl ads had found that the Focus on the Family spot had already been discussed more than any other planned to run in the game.
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