UNITED STATES OF AMERICA V. ROD R. BLAGOJEVICH, and JOHN HARRIS

[PDF here, via Jeralyn -- lambert]

Here's the (horribly formatted) full text. This is interesting:

c. Defendants ROD BLAGOJEVICH and JOHN HARRIS, together with others, attempted to use ROD BLAGOJEVICH’s authority to appoint a United States Senator for the purpose of obtaining personal benefits for ROD BLAGOJEVICH, including, among other things, appointment as Secretary of Health & Human Services in the President-elect’s administration, and alternatively, a lucrative job which they schemed to induce a union to provide to ROD BLAGOJEVICH in exchange for appointing as senator an individual whom ROD BLAGOJEVICH and JOHN HARRIS believed to be favored by union officials and their associates

Minimization procedures were implemented during the interception of conversations at the Friends of Blagojevich offices and over phones. At times, these minimization procedures were stricter than required under law so as to avoid intercepting certain potentially privileged conversations.

So far as I know, minimization procedures are routine, both for wiretaps and NSA intercepts.

Still, it's interesting that minimization come up in that portion of the indictment that bears on the Senate appointment, rather than anywhere else. Eh?

NOTE Hmmm....

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Maybe I should already know this

but what are "minimization procedures"?