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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (9346)	1/20/2006 11:54:53 AM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541731

With 72-hour retroactive warrants, there is no impediment or delay at all. You hear Mohammed Bomber calling from Cairo to someone in Detroit. You record the conversation and find out there is something suspicious there. So you file for a retroactive warrant while trapping everything else at the Detroit number for the next three days. By then you either know this is a bad guy and pull together the basis for a warrant, or you know it's a dead end and the warrant is academic. FISA rarely says no to warrant requests. If you think it's a bad guy but the FISA warrant is turned down, you still have everything you heard for 72 hours and you can start a normal investigation of the suspect through the FBI. I don't see how anyone is constrained from doing what they need to do under the current system.