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ISP Owner Who Fought FBI Spying Freed From Gag Order

Posted by timothy on from the free-to-move-about-the-prison dept.

Tootech writes "So you wonder what happens when an ISP recieves a a so-called 'national security letter' from the FBI? Well, read this about an ISP owner's fight to not have to turn over everything and the sink to the FBI: 'The owner of an internet service provider who mounted a high-profile court challenge to a secret FBI records demand has finally been partially released from a 6-year-old gag order that forced him to keep his role in the case a secret from even his closest friends and family. He can now identify himself and discuss the case, although he still can't reveal what information the FBI sought. Nicholas Merrill, 37, was president of New York-based Calyx Internet Access when he received a so-called "national security letter" from the FBI in February 2004 demanding records of one of his customers and filed a lawsuit to challenge it.'"

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  1. FBI Liars by AnonymousClown · · Score: 2, Funny
    Ah, so the FBI are liars.

    I wonder why I root for Al Capone in all those gangster movies.....

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  2. Re: Troubling by spun · · Score: 2, Funny

    the roman empire netted common soldiers a nice plot of land in Gaul, the poor in Rome cheap Egyptian wheat, and the empire as a whole several hundred miles of buffer between itself and possible invaders

    Okay, but aside from the Gaulish land, the cheap wheat and the defensible borders, what has the Empire ever done for us?

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  3. Re:Troubling by JustNilt · · Score: 2, Funny

    Did you really just cite a movie as a reference?! It's not that hard to cite the actual case, after all. That being said, this case dealt with a criminal case, not so much a civil matter such as this. While I agree that you should always be allowed to consult an attorney, I don't think Gideon v Wainwright actually applied in this case.

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  4. Re:Troubling by fishexe · · Score: 4, Funny

    Did you really just cite a movie as a reference?! It's not that hard to cite the actual case, after all.

    We're Americans (mostly). We won't look up the case, but we might watch the movie. So which is a better way to get the point across, cite something we'll look up or something we won't?

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