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re: Secret Clearance

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pat Farrell)
Wed Dec 6 08:00:02 1995

Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 07:55:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Pat Farrell" <pfarrell@netcom.com>
Reply-To: pfarrell@netcom.com
To: cypherpunks@toad.com

In message Wed, 6 Dec 1995 06:57:12 -0500 (EST),
  Jay Holovacs <holovacs@styx.ios.com>  writes:

> I think it's interesting that police and even FBI that normally operate
> "legally authorized" wiretaps do not require SECRET clearance. What
> really goes on here?

You can't walk the halls of the FBI headquarters without a clearance.

The RBOCs do have cleared people that perform the taps.

Pat

Pat Farrell    Grad Student      http://www.isse.gmu.edu/students/pfarrell
Info. Systems & Software Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
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