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...George Bush tried the first. When that failed, he opted for the second. In 2002 he issued a secret Executive Order to allow the NSA to eavesdrop without a warrant on phone conversations, e-mail and other electronic communications, even when at least one party to the exchange was in the U.S.--the circumstance that would ordinarily trigger the warrant requirement. For four years, Bush's decision remained a closely guarded secret. Because the NSA program was so sensitive, Administration officials tell TIME, the "lawyers' group," an organization of fewer than half a dozen government attorneys the National Security Council...
...improved means of capturing and analyzing. Justice Department officials say a FISA surveillance request can take up to a week to prepare, even for some seasoned department lawyers. One of them describes the requests as being "like mortgage applications" in their complexity. "When you get a terrorist's cell phone and there are 20 numbers in it," a former Administration official says, "you can't fill out one of these for every one of them." A high-ranking intelligence official says even the emergency provision was insufficient. "We had to stop the surveillance to get approval to continue," he says...
...explanation for the NSA's reluctance to seek court approval may be that wiretaps of individual conversations are just one part of what the spy agency can do. It also has the technology to perform data mining, combing by computer through billions of phone calls and Internet messages and looking for patterns that may point to terrorist activity. That requires sifting through a mountain of individual communications to find the one that might lead to something. Under FISA, the NSA would have to obtain a warrant for each suspect phone number. Authorities argue that the FISA process is too slow...
...DVDs. But at an expected retail price of $400 to $500, it won't come cheap. TAPPING INTO THE POWER OF FUEL CELLS Could Medis Technologies turn the Energizer Bunny into roadkill? The company's disposable $19.99 fuel cell batteries will deliver up to 20 hours of cell-phone talk time. Optional adapters allow it to juice up iPods and PDAs as well...
CALL IT COOL Scheduled for release this week is Palm's latest smart phone, the Treo 700w. Slightly narrower than its predecessors, it will forsake the familiar Palm operating system for Microsoft's Windows Mobile. Available exclusively through Verizon Wireless, it should be able to take full advantage of Verizon's wire-free broadband network...