Newsstand - NY Times: "Lawyers Fear Monitoring in Cases on Terrorism"... and fly every week




Palal
Apr 28, 08, 9:48 pm
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/28/us/28lawyers.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

PORTLAND, Ore. — Thomas Nelson, an Oregon lawyer, has lived in a state of perpetual jet lag for the last two years. Every few weeks, he boards a plane in Portland and flies to the Middle East to meet with a high-profile Saudi client who cannot enter the United States because he faces charges here of financing terrorism.

Mr. Nelson says he does not dare to phone this client or send him e-mail messages because of what many prominent criminal defense lawyers say is a well-founded fear that all of their contacts are being monitored by the United States government.

Any FTers doing this :D?

As pointed out on /. (http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/08/04/29/003253.shtml), using PGP may be much easier.


mbstone
Apr 28, 08, 9:52 pm
Any FTers doing this :D?Being bugged by the government? The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) requires phone companies to be able to simultaneously bug 2.5% of their phone lines at once. Every lawyer in town (any town) is presumably included in that number.



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