Wired‘s Ryan Singel has a great find in his review of FBI Director Robert Mueller’s March 2004 notes on the warrantless-surveillance imbroglio. One of the aides Mueller met with the day Acting Attorney General James Comey likely informed him that he wouldn’t reauthorize the surveillance program is Michael A. Fedarcyk, then the chief of the Counterterrorism Division’s Communications Exploitation Section. That meeting may shine a light into how information generated from the National Security Agency’s surveillance of international communications made its way into domestic terrorism investigations.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=180124