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Date: 1998-10-05
US-Spionageprozess: Verdeckte Abhoerprotokolle
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Woher wohl alle diese Daten gekommen sind, auf denen die
Anklage gegen den mutmasslichen Spion Kurt Stand basiert?
Der morgen in Alexandria (VA) beginnende Prozess wird wenig
Klarheit in diese Frage bringen, weil die Federals die
Herkunft der abgehörten Daten nicht offenlegen müssen. Der
Verteidiger kann die Qualität der vorgebrachten Indizien
daher auch nicht in Frage stellen & findet dies daher nicht
fair.
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. An espionage trial set to begin in federal
court here on Tuesday highlights what even the secret
court's supporters admit is its weakness: The court's
secrecy can make it very difficult for defendants caught on
the wiretaps to defend themselves.
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"Under law I can't find out what the wiretap was based on,
whether the information was flawed, whether the judge was
correct to authorize it. There's a fundamental issue of
fairness here," says Richard Sauber, a Washington, D.C.,
lawyer defending accused spy Kurt Stand.
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The law requires the Justice Department, and usually the FBI
or the National Security Agency, to show a judge that the
target is a foreign government or agent engaging in
"clandestine intelligence gathering activities" or
terrorism. "The spirit of the thing is to hold the (wiretap
requests) to a high legal standard," says William Webster,
director of the FBI when FISA was passed. "That's a large
departure from the way things had been done."
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Says David Banisar, researcher for the Electronic Privacy
Information Center: "There are mistakes made in ordinary
warrant processes, from getting the wrong address to not
having probable cause, and they can be corrected when
lawyers attack the warrant. "
"That can't happen here," he says. "We'll never know how
many mistakes are made because the (secret) court's
proceeding isn't public."
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published on: 1998-10-05
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