March 19, 2007

While Under Scrutiny, FBI Continued to Use Wrong Means to Obtain Phone Records

FBI counterterrorism officials continued to use flawed procedures to obtain thousands of U.S. telephone records during a two-year period when bureau lawyers and managers were expressing escalating concerns about the practice, according to senior FBI and Justice Department officials and documents. FBI lawyers raised the concerns beginning in late October 2004 but did not closely scrutinize the practice until last year, FBI officials acknowledged. They also did not understand the scope of the problem until the Justice Department launched an investigation, FBI officials said.

Amid Concerns, FBI Lapses Went On, Washington Post, March 18, 2007.