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U.S. government's use of secret spy and terrorism surveillance increases.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Byline: Shannon McCaffrey
WASHINGTON _ The government's use of secret surveillance warrants to track spies and terrorists surged to a record high in 2003, surpassing for the first time the number of wiretaps sought by law enforcement in traditional criminal cases.
The new figures released Saturday show the extent to which the Justice Department and the FBI have shifted their focus to battling terrorism in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks and, in the process, turned to the nation's secret "spy court" for legal permission to do so.
"There's been a fundamental change in the way the government conducts surveillance," said David Sobel, general counsel for the Electronic Privacy ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, U.S. government's use of secret spy and terrorism surveillance...