Misblog

Originally published on March 07, 2008; Updated and Republished on May 03, 2008:

FBI Director Muller, appeared before Congress this week promising there will be no more mea culpa for the FBI’s misuse of National Security Letters (NSL)—the "Ouantico Circuit" has been working better than expected.

Web:

• UPDATED 05/03/2008 Seattle Post-Intelligence, Expectation of privacy a precious right (opinion by Babak Pasdar) Turns out Muller has more data than he knows what to do with—only one problem he needs a way to legally use it.

  NSLs have likely been nothing more than cover for using already intercepted data, but what if an NSL cannot provide cover?

  Look for Muller et al. to propose legislation "blessing" the current method of intercepting data, without probable cause, AND to grandfather in the billions of bits already illegally intercepted!

• WP, FBI Data Transfers Via Telecoms Questioned What a great article by Ellen Nakashima. Describes the issues on a topic of great interest and ramification in a short, precise, and readable way.