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Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996
*
*   The leading lobbyist for CALEA was Louis Freeh, the aggressive new
*   director of the FBI. The government's most important investigative
*   tool, Freeh said, was "wiretapping, court-authorized wiretapping."
*   
*   Unless remedial steps were taken, he continued, "the country will
*   be unable to protect itself from terrorism, violent crime, drug
*   trafficking, espionage, kidnapping and other grave crimes."
*   
*   But is Freeh's frightening vision true?
*   
*   In fact, at the same time the FBI was telling Congress and the public
*   that the new technologies were already preventing them from conducting
*   essential wiretaps, senior FBI officials from cities across the United
*   States were telling FBI headquarters in Washington THE EXACT OPPOSITE.
*   We know this because...[buy the book! Burnham is an American hero.]


Additionally, the FBI/NSA has briefcase-sized devices that can be attached
to any digital telephone company transmission line, and can monitor many
conversations simultaneously.

#   "The FBI's Latest Idea: Make Wiretapping Easier"
#   By Anthony Ramirez, The New York T