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F.B.I. Gained Unauthorized Access to E-Mail
F.B.I. Gained Unauthorized Access to E-Mail
By ERIC LICHTBLAU
New York Times
February 17, 2008
WASHINGTON — A technical glitch gave the F.B.I. access to the e-mail messages from an entire computer network — perhaps hundreds of accounts or more — instead of simply the lone e-mail address that was approved by a secret intelligence court as part of a national security investigation, according to an internal report of the 2006 episode.
F.B.I. officials blamed an “apparent miscommunication” with the unnamed Internet provider, which mistakenly turned over all the e-mail from a small e-mail domain for which it served as host. The records were ultimately destroyed, officials said.
Time Line of Gonzales' career
' career
LA Times
August 28, 2007
At last the attorney general has done the right thing and stepped down.
Some significant dates in the Washington career of Alberto R. Gonzales, the nation's 80th U.S. attorney general, who announced his resignation Monday.
January 2001: Named President Bush's White House legal counsel.
Jan. 25, 2002: In a memo, Gonzales contends that the president can waive anti-torture
laws and international treaties that provide protections to prisoners of war.
Feb. 3, 2005: Confirmed and sworn in as attorney general.
