CDR: Re: Is this Reno/wiretap stat true?

[Declan McCullagh]

On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 12:00:29PM -0800, James A. Donald wrote:
>      --
>  > At 01:29 PM 11/19/2000 -0500, George at orwellian.org wrote:
>  > Found in Usenet:
>  >
>  > #    I don't know if Reno is a traitor, but consider this:
>  > #    Between 1992 and 1997, there were approximately 2,500
>  > #    national security wiretaps requested by the FBI.  Only one
>  > #    of these 2,500 requests was turned down:  Wen Ho Lee's!  And
>  > #    this turndown took place while Wen Ho Lee was still
>  > #    downloading nuclear secrets from Lost Alamos.
>  >
>  > True/False?
> 
> 
> Any new, important and surprising fact reported on usenet without source or 
> explanation is almost certainly a lie.

In general you'd be right, but this might be an exception. Check out
the annual wiretap reports on epic.org. (Admin office of US Courts
publishes them.)

-Declan