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[privacy] Hundreds of New Documents Reveal Expanded Military Role in Domestic Su rveillance
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 19:04:27 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via ACLU.org. [snip] New documents uncovered as a result of an American Civil Liberties Union and New York Civil Liberties Union lawsuit reveal that the Department of Defense secretly issued hundreds of national security letters (NSLs) to obtain private and sensitive records of people within the United States without court approval. A comprehensive analysis of 455 NSLs issued after 9/11 shows that the Defense Department seems to have collaborated with the FBI to circumvent the law, may have overstepped its legal authority to obtain financial and credit records, provided misleading information to Congress, and silenced NSL recipients from speaking out about the records requests, according to the ACLU. [snip] More: http://www.aclu.org/safefree/nationalsecurityletters/32145prs20071014.html - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFHEmg5q1pz9mNUZTMRAiNpAKCKeX3EkZINIcv1wO/ess5HdgyOsQCfSDE6 3DLVfsGo8PMsqMxPGyf4eDo= =S1H3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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