When the DoJ Inspector General investigated the FBI's use of National Security Letters in the year 2006, nearly 50,000 Americans were targeted by them. Followin

When the DoJ Inspector General investigated the FBI's use of National Security Letters in the year 2006, nearly 50,000 Americans were targeted by them. Following his report, the next year the FBI used them on Americans less than 17,000 times. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/mystery-nsl/ http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/mystery-nsl/ Since then the FBI's Counter-terror division, alone among all government agencies, instituted a comprehensive tracking tool for administrative subpoenas. The numbers have stayed low ever since. Read more on the reports here: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/03/fbi-tried-to-co/ http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/03/fbi-tried-to-co/ http://www.justice.gov/oig/special/s1001r.pdf http://www.justice.gov/oig/special/s1001r.pdf http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/01/fbi-att-verizon-violated-wiretapping-laws/ http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/01/fbi-att-verizon-vio... http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/03/fbi_misuses_und/ http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/03/fbi_misuses_und/ http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/03/fbi-tried-to-co/ http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/03/fbi-tried-to-co/ Someday we'll see the numbers from the DoJ criminal division and from the DEA, and I'll bet they are huge and have almost no oversight. The story made very clear that admin subpoenas began as ways for the regulatory state to police things like minimum wage, and then soon came to eat citizens' Fourth Amendment rights, thanks to irrational campaigns of fear like the "Wars" on drugs and terror. Which is another way of saying, I'm willing to bet that the majority of administrative subpoenas these days are targeted at individuals in connection with investigations into potential violations of criminal statutes, rather than at businesses.