A federal appeals panel sharply challenged the Bush administration last week over new rules making it easier for police and the FBI to wiretap Internet phone calls. "When you go back to the office, have a big chuckle," Judge Harry T. Edwards told the lawyer for the FCC, calling the government's arguments "gobbledygook." The skepticism of the administration's case encouraged civil liberties and education groups that argued the U.S. is improperly applying telephone-era rules to a new generation of services.
May 08, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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A U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit panel sharply challenged the Bush administration Friday over new rules making it easier for police and the FBI to wiretap Internet phone calls. A judge said the government’s courtroom arguments were “gobbledygook.”
The skepticism expressed so openly toward the administration’s case encouraged civil liberties and education groups that argued that the U.S. is improperly applying telephone-era rules to a new generation of Internet services.
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