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Date: June 15, 2007 6:32:27 PM PDT
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Subject: Secret Search & Seizure
FBI to Boost 'Black Bag' Search Ops
June 15, 2007 12:02 PM
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/06/as_part_of_its_.html
Justin Rood Reports:
As part of its growing intelligence operations within the United
States, the FBI has increased its surreptitious entry and search
missions since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, according to an
unclassified bureau document.
"The refocusing of FBI operational priorities and the new emphasis
placed on intelligence-based activities. . . has resulted in a
dramatic increase" in the demand for so-called 'black bag" jobs,
in which teams of highly-trained specialists covertly enter a home
or office, search its contents and leave without indicating they
had been there, states the budget document. It does not detail how
many of the secret searches it carries out, and the FBI did not
respond to comment.
The bureau is asking Congress for an additional $5 million to pay
for the operations, and over a dozen new specialized personnel.
In 1995, most of the FBI's secret search operations were related to
criminal investigations, according to the document. Last year,
close to 90 percent of such operations are for national security
matters, it asserts.
"It's obviously troubling that people's homes are being searched
and they may never learn of it – if they're never charged with a
crime," said Lisa Graves of the Center for National Security
Studies, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank which studies
intelligence policy and constitutional issues. Graves told the
Blotter on ABCNews.com she does not believe the searches receive
sufficient judicial oversight.
The FBI did not respond to a request for comment.
In advance of a surreptitious search on a national security matter,
the FBI is required to obtain approval from a secret body known as
the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. In a criminal matter,
it must obtain a judicial warrant.
The FBI document obtained by ABCNews.com includes new details about
how the secret search operations go down.
"The execution of covert entry/search operations usually requires
the [FBI] to physically deploy a team of approximately 11 agent
personnel full time over a period of time (usually at least 3 days)
to the target location," the document states. Last year, the
unit's 18 agents spent an average of 97 days on the road, according
to the document. That suggests the bureau carried out roughly 50 of
the secret operations.
Last year, the operations were 90 percent successful, according to
the document. But the team faces challenges from new advances in
security technology, and needs additional engineers, technicians,
and analysts to help plan and prepare for each operation.
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