FBI investigation of Broadwell reveals bureau’s comprehensive access to electronic communications
The trail cut across a seemingly vast territory with no clear indication of the boundaries, if any, that the FBI imposed on itself.
By the time the probe exploded into public view earlier this month, the FBI was sitting on a mountain of data containing the private communications — and intimate secrets — of a CIA director and a U.S. war commander. What the bureau didn’t have — and apparently still doesn’t — is evidence of a crime.