Here’s a good Arsticle on the FBI’s use of “improper” letters – er, illegal demands – to get information from telecommunications providers. They’ve got a cub reporter over there at Ars Technica who seems destined to really make some waves.
Winner line: “. . . White House Homeland Security Advisor Frances Fragos Townsend responded to questions about the latest revelations by pointing to the creation of a ‘compliance unit’ in the FBI. We thought the Constitution already provided for a ‘compliance unit’: the judicial branch.”
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