[free-sklyarov] Ashcroft Comments on Carnivore

[Jon O .]

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House pulls Carnivore into the light

By Lisa M. Bowman
ZDNet News 
July 23, 2001 3:20 PM PT
A bill requiring federal law-enforcement officials to be more 
forthright when answering questions about electronic surveillance 
systems has passed the U.S. House. 

And last Friday, when a reporter asked Attorney General John Ashcroft
about the future of Carnivore during his visit to the Silicon Valley, 
Ashcroft replied that the FBI does not have a system called Carnivore.
He then made a vague comment about how any similar system would use
technology that is "privacy neutral."