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Jan 9 2008 3:26PM GMT
Posted by: Margaret Rouse
Technology, Telecom
Overheard: FBI gets confused by their phone bill just like the rest of us
Posted by: Margaret Rouse
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The FBI routinely failed to pay telecom companies promptly for providing phone and internet lines to the FBI’s impressive domestic surveillance architecture — resulting in at least one phone company cutting off a foreign intelligence wiretap until the FBI paid its bill,
Ryan Singel, FBI Wiretap Cut Off After Feds Fail To Pay Telecom Spying Bills |
Ironically, it seems that some of the problems stemmed from the FBI’s inability to decipher and keep track of the charges on their phone bills. Welcome to the real world.





