DOCUMENTS IN THE NEWS - 2000
Crime and Domestic Terrorism
Documents in the News identifies issues about
government making news headlines
and web sources with
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of this webmaster or The University of
Michigan.
Last updated on August 31,
2000
Carnivore
(FBI)
- Diagnostic tool allowing the Federal Bureau of Investigation to
intercept court-ordered surveillance of potential criminals (e.g. email
but not online shopping)
- Describes the program
- Testimony of the FBI's Donald Kerr before the House Subcommittee on
the Constitution, July 24, 2000
- Newspaper editorials
Cyber
Threats and the U.S. Economy (CIA)
- Testimony given by John Serabian of the CIA to the Joint Economic
Committee on February 23, 2000
- Outlines types of cyberthreats and CIA response
Cybercrime (Dept. of
Justice)
- Legal and policy issues of cybercrime, including freedom of speech,
electronic commerce, encryption and privacy
- Cyberetiquette for children
- How to report cybercrime
Electronic
Frontier: The Challenge of Unlawful Conduct Involving the Use of the
Internet
- Report by the President's Working Group on Unlawful Conduct on the
Internet
- Analyzes computers as targets, storage facilities, and communications
tools
- Adequacy of federal laws, law enforcement problems, and types of
cybercrime
- Recommendations include treating crimes in a technology-neutral
atmosphere, establishing new tools, and working with the private sector
Background
- 168 people were killed when a bomb exploded in the Murrah Federal
Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995
- This was the first news story covered by the Documents Center web site
- Timothy McVeigh was later convicted and sentenced to death for the
bombing; Terry Nichols to life imprisonment without the chance of parole
- The bombing was presumably a retribution of the FBI siege of the
Branch Davidian Compound in Waco, Texas, on April 19, 1993
- A memorial to the victims was dedicated on April 19, 2000
Oklahoma
City Bombing (Yahoo)
- Extensive list of web sites on the Oklahoma City Bombing and the
ensuing legal case
Oklahoma
City National Memorial Foundation
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