It's hard to keep track of all those wiretaps

FBI Cites More Than 100 Possible Eavesdropping Violations

By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, March 9, 2006; Page A09

The FBI reported more than 100 possible violations to an intelligence oversight board over the past two years, including cases in which agents tapped the wrong telephone, intercepted the wrong e-mails or continued to listen to conversations after a warrant had expired, according to a report issued yesterday.

In one case, the FBI obtained the contents of 181 telephone calls rather than just the billing records to which it was entitled. In another, a communication was monitored for more than a year after eavesdropping should have ended -- although investigators blamed a third-party provider for the mix-up.

(The entire story is here.)