nytimes.com: September 9, 2007 F.B.I. Data Mining Reached Beyond Initial Targets By ERIC LICHTBLAU WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 — The F.B.I. cast a much wider net in its terrorism investigations than it has previously acknowledged by relying on telecommunications companies to analyze phone-call patterns of the associates of Americans who had come under suspicion, according to newly obtained bureau records. The documents indicate that the Federal Bureau of Investigation used secret demands for records... read more
