FBI investigation of Broadwell reveals bureau’s comprehensive access to electronic communications

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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.

via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-investigation-of-broadwell-reveals-bureaus-comprehensive-access-to-electronic-communications/2012/11/17/5f27d636-3012-11e2-9f50-0308e1e75445_story.html?wprss=rss_world

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.