The most interesting part of the article, in my eyes. > Yet it later came out that an FBI agent had quickly obtained the records under a traditional grand-jury

The most interesting part of the article, in my eyes. > Yet it later came out that an FBI agent had quickly obtained the records under a traditional grand-jury subpoena—then, with the documents in hand, been ordered over the phone to return them and try again with an NSL, even though NSLs clearly didn’t apply to education records. The FBI had, in other words, created its own unnecessary delay, then used the story to claim it needed more power.