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You're wrong on this one sadly. If you receive a national security letter, you are not allowed to tell anyone (not your family, not your lawyer, not anyone).
by nostromo 13y ago
You're wrong on this one sadly.
If you receive a national security letter, you are not allowed to tell anyone (not your family, not your lawyer, not anyone).
If you break the life-long gag order, you go to jail for up to 5 years.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/08/nsl-gag-order-lifted/ http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/08/nsl-gag-order-lifte...;
Hundreds of thousands of these have been issued, and the above story (about the owner of an ISP) is one of the few cases where someone fought back and won the right to speak about it.
- untog 13y agoAha. Thank you for citing a source on this one. I still wonder though, if your involvement has been directly leaked, whether you are able to confirm the existence of it. I suppose it wouldn't be a course of action any lawyer recommends.
- adventured 13y agoParticularly at the rate the Obama Admin has been prosecuting people on leaks, there's little question it would still be very advisable to err on the side of extreme caution.
- kyllo 13y agoYou can't even tell your lawyer?! That can't be constitutional. The government has no right to even know whether you told your lawyer or not.
- dxhdr 13y agoWelcome to the PATRIOT act. There's a reason people are pissed about it.