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FBI ISP Letters May Have Violated Free Speech
Anti-Globalism sends in a Reuters account of an appeals court hearing in which an unnamed ISP is challenging the Patriot Act "National Security Letter" provision that allows the FBI to issue secret letters to ISPs and telecoms, demanding customer records. "A panel of federal appeals court judges pushed a US government lawyer on Wednesday to answer why FBI letters sent out to Internet service providers seeking information should remain secret. ... Between 2003 and 2006 nearly 200,000 national security letters were sent out. Of those about 97 percent received gag orders."
No, we're in Iraq to remove the threat posed by Saddam Hussein and his weapons of mass destruction that could otherwise have been launched within 45 minutes. At least that's what they told me.
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
The FBI thinks there are 200,000 terrorists here!
I deem it unlikely. Even if counting all the local politicians and not only the airheads in D.C., you won't even get close to 200,000.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Tonight's top story: Government agencies headed by unelected bureaucrats violate citizens' constitutional rights. More at 11.
Its = possessive. It's = "it is"