FBI Data Transfers Via Telecoms Questioned

By Ellen Nakashima
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, April 8, 2008; A03

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When FBI investigators probing New York prostitution rings, Boston organized
crime or potential terrorist plots anywhere want access to a suspect's
telephone contacts, technicians at a telecommunications carrier served with
a government order can, with the click of a mouse, instantly transfer key
data along a computer circuit to an FBI technology office in Quantico.

The circuits -- little-known electronic connections between telecom firms
and FBI monitoring personnel around the country -- are used to tell the
government who is calling whom, along with the time and duration of a
conversation and even the locations of those involved.

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