May 30, 2002

Julie Salamon reviews Barbara Kopple's four-hour TV documentary The Hamptons; photo (M)

Wayne Arthurs defeats Andy Roddick in first round of French Open; photo (M)

European Parliament is expected to vote to approve new data protection law that will make it much easier for police in 15 European Union countries to obtain and use communications records in investigations; civil rights groups, telecommunications companies and Internet service providers oppose law; flash point in law is provision inserted in draft last December by member governments; it requires phone and Internet service companies to retain 'traffic data'--information on their customers' phone calls, e-mail messages and Internet connections--long after it would be discarded under current law, at end of each billing cycle of one or two months; it would also loosen some restrictions on law enforcement access to records; compromise language adds requirement that police surveillance of citizens' phone and Internet use be appropriate, proportionate and limited in length; draft law also makes reference to European Convention on Human Rights, though only in footnote; terror attacks last fall softened opposition to law's data retention provision by many civil liberties advocates and European Comr Erkki Liikanen; other provisions that Parliament is expected to approve include ban on unsolicited e-mail advertising, known as spam, unless recipient has specifically 'opted in' and agreed to receive such mailings (M)

FBI director Robert S Mueller III acknowledges for first time that Sept 11 terrorist attacks might have been preventable if officials in his agency responded differently to all pieces of information that were available; says FBI will be 'redesigned and refocused' and its fundamental mission will now be prevention of new terrorist operations; says, regarding Sept 11, that there were no specific warnings, but there were 'dots that should have been connected'; this is sharp turnabout from substance and tone of remarks Mueller and other admininistration officials made in weeks after Sept 11; as recently as May 8 Mueller told Senate hearing that there was nothing agency could have done to prevent attacks; that stance has become increasingly untenable in recent weeks after news reports that two FBI field offices might have had important pieces of information that were never connected by officials at headquarters; Mueller thanks Coleen Rowley, veteran agent and general counsel in Minneapolis office, for her 15-page letter complaining that officials in Washington blocked field office's requests to investigate Zacarias Moussaoui further; photo (M)

Daniel Donohue, 37-year-old former seminarian, details allegations he had made that led to suspension of Msgr Charles M Kavanagh, influential monsignor in New York Archdiocese, interview; Donohue describes intense spiritual tie that he says grew sexually charged and emotionally abusive; outlines six-year relationship with Kavanagh that began when Donohue was 14-year-old freshman at Cathedral Preparatory Seminary in 1978 and continued to end of his second year at Cathedral College in Douglaston, NY; says he dropped out of seminary then, at 19, emotionally shattered by the experience (M)