Just to play devil's advocate
And this differs from established proceedure for your basic wiretap..how?
Secret court gives approval with only FBI present. Check. Target is not informed. Check. Nobody else is allowed to inform target. Check. Target usually finds out (if ever) in the discovery phase of the trial. Check.
The only difference is the kind of personal information stream they are tapping into. And I think that for most of us, our library checkout records carry less information than our phone conversations. So it isn't even like this is more intrusive than what has already been accepted as established proceedure.
Am I missing something?
Cheers,
Ben
