24 outubro 2002

ECO-TERRORES
Lawsuit to Test USA Patriot Act: Two major organizations are set to sue the Bush administration over possible abuses of privacy related to the controversial bill passed after September 11. [...]
"We're trying to obtain statistical information, just to get a sense of how widely used the new Patriot Act authorities have been within the last year," a source close to the organizations said.
The source said that a secret FBI memo from April 2000 that was obtained by EPIC in an earlier FOIA lawsuit raises concerns about government surveillance practices. The memo is from the bureau's counterterrorism division and centers on surveillance operations conducted under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).