Hopefully the NSA didn't take phone tap lessons from the FBI

[rainbow4321]

I know the FBI wiretap thing is old news, but makes you wonder if the "oops, wrong number" excuse carries over to chimp's NSA wiretaps.

http://www.officer.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=8&id=26177

The FBI says it sometimes gets the wrong number when it intercepts conversations in terrorism investigations, an admission critics say underscores a need to revise wiretap provisions in the Patriot Act.

The bureau's acknowledgment that it makes mistakes in some wiretaps _ although not specifically roving wiretaps _ came in a recent Justice Department inspector general's report on the FBI's backlog of intercepted but unreviewed foreign-language conversations.

The 38,514 untranslated hours included an undetermined number from what the FBI called ''collections of materials from the wrong sources due to technical problems.''
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The Justice Department fought congressional efforts to require investigators to determine that the target of surveillance actually was using the tapped phone or computer before they listened in. Some lawmakers said such a requirement would reduce the chance that other conversations would be intercepted.