FBI Can Target i-Gaming Through Cyber Initiative

The White House, FBI and Congress will step up their efforts to combat i-gaming -  even through warrant-less monitoring - based on comments from the House Intelligence Committee, which held a closed hearing on April 24th devoted to the Bush administration’s so-called Cyber Initiative:

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA): If you go into a place and there’s a crime actively being committed, let’s say there’s a bookie joint, and there’s tens of thousands of illegal transactions going on every minute. And you know that. And you have proof of that. You don’t question your ability to go in and to harvest the fruit of all the activities in there, is that correct?

Robert Mueller (FBI Director): That’s correct.

Links
CNet: Transcript of FBI Director on internet surveillance
CNet: FBI’s Net Surveillance proposal raises privacy, legal concerns