[privacy] Hundreds of New Documents Reveal Expanded Military Role in Domestic Su rveillance

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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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

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