Judiciary Hearing on FBI and NSLs
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Chairman John Conyers questions FBI Director Mueller:
| Chairman Conyers: "I wanted to begin with the anthrax investigation, which we can't get any information about, but yet the Senate apparently got a briefing on it. And we have Richard Hurtling, Acting Assistant Attorney General, wrote Congressman Rush Holt saying that we can't give you any information or a briefing in the House. Is there any way we can overcome this difference of views?" Director Mueller: "I'd be happy to discuss with the Department of Justice the possibility of providing some form of briefing with regard to what is happening in the anthrax investigation..." |
Chairman Jerrold Nadler of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties questions FBI Director Mueller:
| Chairman Nadler: "Let me go further. The IG also discovered that the subscriber information for approximately 11,000 -- 11,100 phone accounts was obtained with only nine NSLs. Nine NSLs produced 11,000 phone accounts." Director Mueller: "I'd have to get back to you on that." Chairman Nadler: "Alright, well, it's in the IG's report. My question is, that ratio sort of implies a fishing expedition, or at least not a very focused investigation." Director Mueller: "I'm not going to disagree with you in terms of the perception, I have to get back to you as to the circumstances under which #1 what the IG was referring to and the circumstances he was referring to." |