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Subject: McConnell: Fewer Than 100 Secret U.S. Wiretaps
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/22/AR2007082202598.html?hpid=topnews
McConnell: Fewer Than 100 Secret U.S. Wiretaps
Domestic Terror Cases 'Manageable'
By Joby Warrick
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, August 23, 2007; A04
Law enforcement officials are targeting fewer than 100 people in the
United States for secret court-approved wiretaps aimed at disrupting
terrorist networks, the top U.S. intelligence official said in an
interview published yesterday.
The relatively low number of those under surveillance in this country
stands in contrast with "thousands" of people overseas whose calls
and e-mails are monitored for possible links to terrorism, Director
of National Intelligence Mike McConnell said.
"If a terrorist calls in and it's another terrorist, I think the
American public would want us to do surveillance of that U.S.
person," he told the El Paso Times. The newspaper released a
transcript of the Aug. 14 interview yesterday.
Previously, few details about the scope of the U.S.-based
surveillance program had been made public.
McConnell made the revelation while visiting El Paso last week for a
conference on border security. In an interview with the newspaper, he
attempted to explain the distinction between court-sanctioned
surveillance of Americans and the kind of warrantless surveillance
that U.S. officials can now conduct under legislation signed into law
by President Bush earlier this month.
The new law allows expanded, warrantless eavesdropping on foreigners'
calls and e-mails to people in the United States, as long as the
Americans involved are not considered targets of the investigation.
If the U.S. recipient of a call turns out to be a terrorism suspect,
law enforcement officials would "just get a warrant," McConnell said.
He described the number of such cases as "manageable."
"On the U.S. persons side, it's 100 or less," he said. "And then, the
foreign side -- it's in the thousands."
A spokesman for McConnell's office declined to comment on the characterization.
Later, addressing a question about security along the U.S.-Mexico
border, McConnell said that people linked to terrorist groups had
sought to enter the United States from the south, but "not in great numbers."
Referring to the southwestern border, he said: "Would they use it as
a path, given it was available to them? In time they will."
He said that a "significant number" of Iraqis have been smuggled
across the border in the past year. A spokesman for McConnell
clarified that the Iraqis were asylum-seekers, who have been
apprehended at border crossings in increasing numbers. So far this
year, 178 Iraqis seeking asylum have been detained along the southern
border; 16 were captured while trying to sneak into the United
States, the spokesman said.
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