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Mueller: Tech companies should make products that can be wiretapped
Mueller said Internet-based and other technology firms "are very wealthy…they can afford to do it." "It" being implementation of means to tap electronic exchanges.
Real ID deadline won't be extended, says DHS
The Jan. 15, 2013 deadline for states to comply with the Real ID act won't be extended again , a Homeland Security Department official told a March 21 congressional panel. However, when assessing...
COPS program can't plug local budget holes, says Melekian
Justice Department grants for community policing cannot be used to plug budget gaps at a local level, said Bernard Melekian, director of the DOJ office of community oriented policing services, aka
House Republicans blast Obama deportation policy
Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee decried during a Nov. 30 hearing Obama administration policy that focuses deportations caused by information collected through the Secure
Southwest Border Prosecution Initiative not a high OJP priority, says Robinson
The Office of Justice Programs didn't request fiscal 2012 funding for the Southwest Border Prosecution Initiative because other efforts have higher priority under a shrinking budget, OJP head Laurie
Mueller cites threats from the Internet
Threats from the Internet rank high on problems FBI should tackle in the coming 2 years, bureau Director Robert Mueller told a June 8 hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Mueller's 10-year term
House subcommittee criticizes White House cybersecurity proposal
The White House cybersecurity legislative proposal came under criticism from Republicans and Democrats during a May 25 hearing of the House Judiciary subcommittee on intellectual property,
House Judiciary set to vote on Patriot Act extensions
The House Judiciary Committee is set to vote May 12 on the extension of three post-Sept. 11, 2001 government surveillance measures following an at-times contentious May 11 hearing of the subcommittee
FBI pondering legislation to strengthen wiretapping ability
The FBI is considering a legislative proposal that could extend its legal ability to intercept communications in technologies that have resisted wiretapping. The bureau increasingly decries what it
Blanton: 'Wikimania' harms federal government
A federal government in the clutches of "Wikimania" has harmed itself by restricting its personnel from reading leaked State Department cables made available by Wikileaks, testified Thomas Blanton,
