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>Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 9:36
>From: lynn
>Subject: FBI Found to Misuse Security Letters (From Dave Farber's IP)
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>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/13/AR2008031302277.html...
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>FBI Found to Misuse Security Letters; 2003-06 Audit Cites Probes of Citizens
>Justice Department official Glenn A. Fine testifies about his probe of
>national security letters. (Dennis Cook -- Associated Press)
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>Dan Eggen, *The Washington Post*, 14 Mar 2008
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>The FBI has increasingly used administrative orders to obtain the personal
>records of U.S. citizens rather than foreigners implicated in terrorism or
>counterintelligence investigations, and at least once it relied on such
>orders to obtain records that a special intelligence-gathering court had
>deemed protected by the First Amendment, according to two government audits
>released yesterday.
> ...