National Security Letter

Source: www.aclu.org --- 44 days ago
NEW YORK – The government will not ask the Supreme Court to review a decision that struck down Patriot Act provisions that allow the government to impose unconstitutional gag orders on recipients of National Security letters (NSLs). NSLs issued by the FBI require recipients to turn over sensitive information about their clients and subscribers. A lower court ruled in 2007 that the gag order provisions were unconstitutional, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld that ruling in 2008. The government's time for petitioning the Supreme Court for review has now expired. ...

Source: www.mysolutioninfo.com --- 98 days ago
There have been a number of misleading articles concerning the proposed regulation on the Licensed Operator's obligations concerning National Security, published for consultation by the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) on the 25th of....... Mar 26 2009 ...

Source: wp.jarretthousenorth.com --- 112 days ago
I just used the Contact form on whitehouse.gov to send the following to President Obama and am reposting it here. Please reach out to the White House with your own concerns on this matter. Dear Mr. Obama: As a supporter, I was surprised to see that Carmen Suro-Bredie, chief FOIA officer in the White House’s Office of [...] ...

Source: www.caymannetnews.com --- 147 days ago
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Source: www.tjcenter.org --- 196 days ago
On Monday, a federal appeals court upheld, in part, a decision striking down provisions of the Patriot Act that prevent National Security Letter (NSL) recipients from speaking out about the secret records demands. The decision comes in an American Civil Liberties Union and New York Civil Liberties Union lawsuit challenging the FBI’s authority to use NSLs [...] ...

Source: bulletortheballot.wordpress.com --- 198 days ago
by 2nd Circuit Court. It’s a small victory in what has been an all out assault on the constitution and civil liberties. Amazing to me that both Dems and Republicans supported and enacted this tripe, but then I’m not really surprised by much anymore. From Electronic Frontier Foundation: Today, the federal Second Circuit Court of Appeals gave another [...] ...

Source: clipmarks.com --- 199 days ago
clipped by: BartendingBear clipper's remarks: It's about DAMN TIME! Clip Source: www.aclu.org A federal appeals court today upheld, in part, a decision striking down provisions of the Patriot Act that prevent National Security Letter (NSL) recipients from speaking out about the secret records demands. The decision comes in an American Civil Liberties Union and New York Civil Liberties Union lawsuit challenging the FBI's authority to use NSLs to demand sensitive and private customer records from Internet Service Providers and then forbid them from discussing the requests. Siding with the ACLU, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit found that the statute's gag provisions violate the First Amendment. "We are gratified that the appeals court found that the FBI cannot silence people with complete disregard for the First Amendment simply by saying the words 'National Security,'" said Melissa Goodman, staff attorney with the ACLU National Security Project. "This is a major victory for the rule of law. ...

Source: legalift.wordpress.com --- 199 days ago
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld, in part, a decision striking down provisions of the Patriot Act that prevent National Security Letter (NSL) recipients from speaking out about the secret records demands. The appeals court invalidated parts of the statute that wrongly placed the burden on NSL recipients to initiate [...] ...

Source: ftp.eff.org --- 199 days ago
Today, the federal Second Circuit Court of Appeals gave another setback to the Bush Administration's claims for sweeping new Executive powers. The court found the National Security Letter (NSL) statute's gag provision unconstitutional in Doe v. Mukasey . The NSL law allows the government to seek your electronic communications transactional records from your ISP without obtaining a court order. The gag provisions required the recipient of a NSL to stay quiet as long as the government desired, with only a fig leaf of judicial review. The fig leaf was not good enough to satisfy the First Amendment. The Second Circuit struck down the statute's truncated judicial review provisions, which required the court to treat the FBI's assertions as conclusive absent evidence of bad faith. In addition, the government was required to initiate judicial proceedings to enforce the gag, instead of the ISP who received the NSL. The Court also construed several controversial aspects of the NSL statute narrowly, substantially reducing the scope of the FBI's gag power. The Second Circuit allowed the FBI to continue to issue NSL to communications service providers, but only pursuant to the new narrower interpretation. The Court did not address the Fourth Amendment implications of NSLs, since the government had withdrawn the NSL at issue before the court ruled, leaving the gag order as the only live issue. District Court Judge Marrero's prior decision is also ...