National security letters
Free Market News Network
by Noel Gibeson
11/10/05
One more thing to fear from the Patriot Act is the use of a national security letter issued unilaterally by a FBI special-agent-in-charge from one of the more than 60 FBI field offices scattered throughout the country. A national security letter, when presented to the recipient, demands that the institution provide all financial records and communications records for the person or people listed on the letter. Furthermore, the letter recipient is warned never to reveal or to disclose the existence of this letter or the person of interest to anyone, ever. More than 30,000 national security letters have already been issued and it is estimated that more than 100,000 people have been the intended targets of these letters...
http://www.fmnn.com/Analysis/94/2872/2005-11-10.asp?wid=94&nid=2872
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Noel Gibeson
11/10/05
One more thing to fear from the Patriot Act is the use of a national security letter issued unilaterally by a FBI special-agent-in-charge from one of the more than 60 FBI field offices scattered throughout the country. A national security letter, when presented to the recipient, demands that the institution provide all financial records and communications records for the person or people listed on the letter. Furthermore, the letter recipient is warned never to reveal or to disclose the existence of this letter or the person of interest to anyone, ever. More than 30,000 national security letters have already been issued and it is estimated that more than 100,000 people have been the intended targets of these letters...
http://www.fmnn.com/Analysis/94/2872/2005-11-10.asp?wid=94&nid=2872
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 11. Nov, 18:28
