The Federal Bureau of Investigation and other agencies have approached some technology companies to request that they erect monitoring systems or let the U.S. government use its own systems, people familiar with the efforts say.
Meanwhile, the council is scheduled in July to decide whether the IAEA should close its investigation into Iraq's nuclear program and place the nation under long-term monitoring.
It also demands that service providers start monitoring a customer within 24 hours of being told that the police or other investigation agencies want to snoop on them.