Technical glitch gave FBI e-mail copies

[The Straight Story]

Technical glitch gave FBI e-mail copies

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 (UPI) -- The FBI was accidentally given access to e-mail from an entire computer network instead of the one account it requested from a U.S. spy court, it was reported Sunday.

The 2006 snafu occurred because of an "apparent miscommunication" with the unnamed Internet provider, The New York Times reported.

Investigators noticed a spike in the e-mail they were monitoring and realized the Internet service provider was directing more correspondence than the judge had authorized.

The erroneously tapped records were destroyed, The Times said.

The error was disclosed in internal documents the FBI had given to the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation, which advocates for digital privacy protections, as part of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit the group has brought.

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2008/02/17/technical_glitch_gave_fbi_e-mail_copies/4189/

[ck4829]

1. Glitch... Yeah, sure, that's the ticket.