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The FBI had spied on a wide range of political figures, especially individuals whom Hoover wanted to discredit (notably the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.), and had authorized unlawful wiretaps and surveillance.
At a December 22 meeting of the Small Group of principals, FBI Director Louis Freeh briefed officials from the NSC staff, CIA, and Justice on wiretaps and investigations inside the United States, including a Brooklyn entity tied to the Ressam arrest, a seemingly unreliable foreign report of possible attacks on seven U.S. cities, two Algerians detained on the Canadian border, and searches in Montreal related to a jihadist cell.
Now, following Ressam's arrest, the FBI asked for an unprecedented number of special wiretaps.
(Whatever FISA's faults, it's better than the previous federal wiretapping policy that permitted the attorney general to authorize national-security wiretaps with no judicial review.)
The electronic version was published simultaneously with the print version, with the added features of hypertext links to cited documents, audio tracks from wiretaps and hearings, and an image (which was later removed) of the official stamp of the CIA, superimposed on a crack smoker.