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First, the administration has requested that government agents be able to procure just one warrant in order to wiretap a person regardless of the phone he uses. (Currently, warrants apply only to individual phones.) Second, it wants to monitor the e-mail addresses to which users send messages, without first getting a warrant. Third, it wants to ease the standard officials have to meet in order to monitor suspected terrorists overseas.