The Communications Exploitation Section (CXS), established in December 2002, is an office of the Operations II branch of the
FBI Counterterrorism Division, which is tasked with analyzing captured communications data (such as phone call records and internet traffic) to identify and monitor "terrorist" networks.
From 2003 to 2005, CXS sent out 739 "exigent letters" to U.S. telephone companies requesting that they send phone call records for their customers.
See also
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Communications Assistance For Law Enforcement Act
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Surveillance
Surveillance is the monitoring of behavior, many activities, or information for the purpose of information gathering, influencing, managing, or directing. This can include observation from a distance by means of electronic equipment, such as ...
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War on Terrorism
References
Further reading
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A Review of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Use of Exigent Letters and Other Informal Requests for Telephone Records',
U.S. Department of Justice
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ), also known as the Justice Department, is a federal executive department of the U.S. government that oversees the domestic enforcement of federal laws and the administration of justice. It is equi ...
, Office of the Inspector General, Oversight and Review Division, January 2010 (Accessed: August 14, 2010)
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Robert Mueller
Robert Swan Mueller III (; born August 7, 1944) is an American lawyer who served as the sixth director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 2001 to 2013.
A graduate of Princeton University and New York University, Mueller served a ...
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The FBI's Counterterrorism Program: Report to The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States'
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Letter to Director Mueller*
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