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National Security Letters: A Little Less Secret?

Discussion in 'Civil Rights & Privacy' started by Lisa Simeone, May 10, 2012.

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Lisa Simeone Original Member

Good news, kinda sorta.

ACLU: National Security Letters: A Little Less Secret?

. . . It is encouraging to hear that the FBI is complying with the court’s decision, but despite this improvement, NSLs remain a troublingly expansive form of government surveillance. Internal government inquiries have uncovered serious abuses of even the NSL statutes’ lax requirements. We now know, for example, that between 2003 and 2005: the FBI severely under-reported its use of NSLs; the FBI used NSLs to collect information about individuals two or three times removed from the actual subjects of FBI investigations; FBI supervisors issued hundreds of unlawful requests that relied on false claims of emergency; and, perhaps most alarmingly, 22 percent of the files audited contained unreported legal violations. A later report tells an alarmingly similar story.

Lisa Simeone, May 10, 2012

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