FC: Sen. Mike DeWine hopes to make it easier to spy on immigrants

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

DeWine's statement:
http://dewine.senate.gov/pressapp/record.cfm?id=183966

Text of bills:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:s.02659:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:s.02586:

-Declan

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   Is privacy the next casualty?
   By Declan McCullagh 
   August 5, 2002, 4:00 AM PT

   WASHINGTON--Sen. Mike DeWine is crusading to hand the FBI new powers
   to eavesdrop on immigrants and other non-citizens living in America.
   
   The Ohio Republican, a former county prosecutor, is proposing that
   police need only have a "suspicion" that someone has links to
   terrorism before being able to spy on that person or snoop through
   their home.
   
   DeWine's bill does not authorize the Feds to target American citizens
   or green card holders. But it does mean that the mere "suspicion" of
   illicit activities would be enough to wiretap the phones and bug the
   e-mail communications of millions of tourists or legal immigrants who
   hold H-1B, B-2, TN-1, or student visas.
   
   "We must give our intelligence community the tools they need to
   closely monitor non-United States persons who want to harm Americans,"
   DeWine claims. "I believe these changes are necessary for our
   government to protect Americans."
   
   What DeWine's proposal seeks to do is unleash the full power of the
   mighty Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) against
   immigrants, tourists, and visitors to the United States who are
   suspects in terrorism investigations. Currently it's difficult for
   federal police to use FISA against non-Americans; DeWine's bill, and a
   related bill introduced by Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., would make it
   far easier.

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