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Re: Did the US defeat wiretapping success?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Denker)
Mon Sep 17 11:15:04 2001
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Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 23:36:24 -0400
To: "P.J. Ponder" <ponder@freenet.tlh.fl.us>,
Hadmut Danisch <hadmut@danisch.de>
From: John Denker <jsd@research.att.com>
Cc: <cryptography@wasabisystems.com>
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At 11:21 PM 9/16/01 -0400, P.J. Ponder wrote:
>Senator Hatch was interviewed by national media on Tuesday and stated that
>the US government had voice intercepts of calls talking about success with
>two targets. He was later criticized for talking about the intercepts.
Hmmmmm, criticized? Why not indicted?
(a) Whoever knowingly and willfully communicates, furnishes,
transmits, or otherwise makes available to an unauthorized
person, or publishes, or uses in any manner prejudicial to
the safety or interest of the United States or for the benefit
of any foreign government to the detriment of the United States
any classified information -
....
(3) concerning the communication intelligence activities
of the United States or any foreign government; or
....
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more
than ten years, or both.
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/798.text.html
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