National Security Letters And More

From CNN:

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The FBI continued in 2006 to badly mishandle letters that it uses to obtain personal records without a court order, according to a Justice Department report released Thursday.

Read the report for yourself here.

March 2008: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, UNCLASSIFIED, A Review of the FBI's Use of National Security Letters: Assessment of Corrective Actions and Examination of NSL Usage in 2006

What has received less attention, but is no less important is the accompanying report on the FBI's use of Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act, allowing increased access to personal information, financial and medical records and, most notoriously, library records.

March 2008: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, UNCLASSIFIED, A Review of the FBI's Use of Section 215 Orders for Business Records in 2006

Also new on the site, the latest batch of 9/11 Commission documents:

FBI documents cited in 9/11 Report End Notes for 9/11/2001

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