The Congress is considering clamping down on the use of national security letters in the face of continuing abuse of NSLs by the FBI, the Department of Defense, the National Security Agency and every other government agency, quite possibly including Amtrak.
It is very much past time that the Congress started clamping down on the travesty that is the use of NSLs. They are an affront to the Constitution and the very idea of freedom and liberty. The use of secret NSLs to search records is an abomination. If Thomas Jefferson were to rise from his grave and you told him about NSLs, he'd wonder why the revolution hadn't already begun.
There may be a place for such things, but given the rampant abuse of NSLs, letting the security agencies have the power to issue NSLs is about a good idea as giving a four-year-old boy a hammer and letting him loose in the fine glassware department; you just know that bad things are going to happen.
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008
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Jeez. I guess the Department of Education wasn't kidding about a Permanent Record. N ow they can NSL for it!
ReplyDeleteAnd what the Hell could AMTRAK need that kind of shit for?