U.S. Senator Kit Bond says the growth of cellphone use in dangerous global hotspots like the Mideast and Asia are hindering spying efforts to track terrorists.
Now Congress is having a fight over whether intelligence agencies can intercept communications of suspected terrorists without a court order.
USA Today has the dirt.
"Each FISA application takes many hours (so) there's a tremendous backlog," says Sen. Kit Bond of Missouri, the top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee. "We are burdened."
Also, Bond says, it's difficult for eavesdroppers to separate foreign and domestic calls because of the fiber-optic technology on which call data is routed through the USA. This rules out a Democratic proposal that would exempt foreign calls from the court order requirement but keep FISA oversight where one party is in the USA, he says.
"You cannot know who (the suspected terrorist) is calling until he picks up," Bond says.
No comments:
Post a Comment