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Feds Trying to Silence Company Wanting to Reveal What Info the Gov’t Is Requesting About You

In 2010 alone, Wired’s Threat Level explains, the government sent more than 24,000 National Security Letters to Internet service providers and other companies such as credit and financial institutions. Letters such as these come with a gag order in place, which requires the companies to stay mum on the fact that the government was seeking to acquire information on individuals.

(Related: Report: Government requests Google users’ data 31 times each day)

Company Challenges Gag Order Requested of It by Governments National Security Letter

The FBI requested that court documents pertaining to the case be redacted. (Image via Wired)

One company served with an NSL earlier this year is pushing back on this request for silence. Wired reports that it wants to tell its customers that their information has been requested by the government and give them the opportunity to take it to court, should they wish. This “minor defiance,” Wired states, has caused the government to file a request that the company, which remains unnamed, be forced to remain quiet because speaking out “may endanger the national security of the United States.”

Wired has more on a case that it believes “shed a little light” on NSLs post-9/11 when they were reformed to not require a court order and come with forced gag orders on companies:

The public has become aware of only a handful of some 300,000 NSLs handed out over the last decade, and those became public only after the recipients launched legal battles opposing them. As a result of these battles, courts have chipped away at the gag order requirement as a violation of the First Amendment, and internal watchdogs have uncovered some abuses of the FBI’s NSL authority. But the letters are still one of the FBI’s most powerful tools; a tool that is rarely discussed inside or outside Congress these days.

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NSLs are a powerful tool because an FBI agent looking into a possible anti-terrorism case can essentially self-issue the NSL to a credit bureau, ISP or phone company with only the sign-off of the Special Agent in Charge of their office. The FBI has to merely assert that the information is “relevant” to an investigation.

The gag orders raise the possibility for extensive abuse of NSLs, under the cover of secrecy. In fact, in 2007, a Justice Department Inspector General audit found that the FBI, which issued almost 200,000 NSLs between 2003 and 2006, had indeed abused its authority and misused NSLs.

The inspector general found that the FBI evaded limits on (and sometimes illegally issued) NSLs to obtain phone, e-mail and financial information on American citizens, and that it had also underreported the use of NSLs to Congress. In 2006 alone, the FBI issued more than 49,000 NSLs, but that number dropped dramatically to 16,804 in 2007 following the inspector general’s report. After the Justice Department claimed it instituted reforms to address the legal lapses, the number of NSLs issued increased to 24,744 in 2008. In 2010, the most recent year for which statistics are available, the FBI issued 24,287 NSLs.

Wired reports on a couple court cases that brought up the constitutionality of gag orders, one of which took six years to remedy. Nicholas Merrill received a request for email addresses and billing information from the government when he was the owner of Calyx Internet Access. Merrill, who was not allowed at first to reveal his name or the company, with the ACLU brought the NSL request to court, stating that the customer information was protected under the Constitution. In a back-and -forth, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in 2008 — four years after the initial request — some parts of the NSL gag order were unconstitutional. From there, Wired reports that the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York said the feds had to justify why a gag order should be maintained. Here’s what happened next:

In June 2009, the government introduced secret evidence to the court to justify continuing the gag order, claiming that if information were revealed about the letter it would harm an ongoing investigation. Merrill and his attorneys were prevented from learning the specifics of the evidence in order to refute it. The government was then ordered by the court to produce an unclassified summary of its evidence.

Wired reports that eventually only a partial gag order was issued, giving Merrill the ability to share the name of himself and his company. This was in exchange for dropping the case and keeping other details secret. While this may seem like a small victory — if that — Wired reports that it gave NSL recipients the ability to challenge NSLs and gag orders, which they could not really do before, and requires the FBI to make a case for why a gag order should remain in place.

Company Challenges Gag Order Requested of It by Governments National Security Letter

NSLs from the FBI (Image: Wired)

In the more recent case of the unnamed company “with employees dispersed across the world,” Wired reports that it challenged the gag order last week. This brings us to the FBI asking the court to enforce the gag because information requested by the government includes “international terrorism or clandestine intelligence activities.”

The FBI did not respond to Wired’s request for comment on the case.

Featured image is by Robert D. Brooks via Flickr. 

Comments (110)

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  • shammo
    Posted on March 15, 2012 at 12:15pm

    I thought J Edgar was dead.

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    • Non-Nobis-Domine-Sed-Nomini-Tuo-Da-Gloriam
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 1:01pm

      This is how our liberty and freedom is taken! History shows us that it has always been under the guise of protecting society and keeping us safe. Pay attention – this has been going on for a long time. When you try to talk to many in our country about these sorts of things happening I find they typically don‘t believe it’s that big of a problem or try to just blame it on one party or the other. We have been the proverbial ‘Frog in the Pot’ for a long time and the water is starting to get hot!

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    • Liberal_Teacher
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 1:27pm

      So true, Non Nobis. This is an issue on which liberals and conservatives should be able to agree.

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    • Dinkiecb
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 1:32pm

      Naw couldn’t be I coulda swore I saw the DRAG QUEEN his self on tv reporting to Obama..oh wait that was Hillary…

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    • lukerw
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 2:06pm

      Just… changed Dresses!

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    • opinionista
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 3:00pm

      No. He and he clones and alive and living well in the White House.

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    • infortheride
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 3:08pm

      Last week, President Obama signed into law the Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011. This law permits Secret Service agents to designate any place they wish as a place where free speech, association and petition of the government are prohibited. And it permits the Secret Service to make these determinations based on the content of speech.

      Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/03/15/can-secret-service-tell-to-shut-up/#ixzz1pDBc4db2

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    • I support God's Israel!
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 3:36pm

      “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” Benjamin Franklin

      “Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.” Justice Learned Hand.

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    • I support God's Israel!
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 3:38pm

      All the more reason to either VOTE OBAMA OUT OF OFFICE or IMPEACH OBAMA.

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    • ProbIemSoIver
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 4:21pm

      I knew that everything I said was monitored by the Alphabet Agency clowns.
      I have invited them to come shut me up. They are B@lless Punks.
      I will continue to destoy their agenda, Like they have destroyed my Country and life.

      You people need to wake the H#!! up already !!!!!

      The government became a corporation in 1871.
      The “gov’t” was broke in 1912 and had to go to the Banksters for a loan (i.e) J.P Morgan, The Rothschilds, Isreal Moses, The Warburgs, the Rockerfellers ans a couple of other “families”.

      They created an “official sounding” PRIVATE BANK to be our nation’s central bank.
      The FEDERAL RESERVE was born.

      In 1913, the flaming progressive, Woodrow Wilson signed the federal reserve act.
      Income tax began that year and you could no longer exchange gold at the banks.

      In 1933 under FDR, the other flaming progressive, the “gov’t” declared bankruptcy.
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlCs7u1ihws

      In 1944 at the Bretton woods treaty, the Federal reserve transfered the deed to the IMF and World Bank.
      The IMF and World Bank created the United Nations the following year.

      The US has been under UN control since then. Panetta admitting that the US goes to war under international treaties confirms this:
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zNwOeyuG84

      Quit calling the Corporation a Government. Our representative republic is gone.
      All these RepubiCON and DemocRAT Politicians are employees of the Corp.

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    • ProbIemSoIver
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 4:42pm

      @Infortheride

      Secret Service ? More B@lless Punks that “Look hard”.
      Put me in the MMA cage with one of them.
      I don’t acknowledge that a PRIVATE COMPANY has any jurisdiction over me.
      It is not even debatable.

      The Secret Clown Circus does NOT want you to see that they are a PRIVATE COMPANY:
      http://www.manta.com/c/mm0y9ck/united-states-secret-service

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  • robinakilt
    Posted on March 15, 2012 at 12:14pm

    Protect the Tree!

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  • dajones
    Posted on March 15, 2012 at 12:06pm

    This is the very definition of an illegal search. They don;t want that getting out.. so .. SS style gag order. We have to remove these people from power fast.

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    • West Coast Patriot
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 1:32pm

      Remove what people? Obama? His admin? This goes way back, so it must be clear that we need to get rid of progressives. Romney is a progressive, so let’s not elect him. He is more of the same. Santorum is big government and believes the government has the right to be in your bedroom, let’s not elect him. Gingrich, well everyone already knows.

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    • mtcountrygrl
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 1:57pm

      I am so sick of the people promoting that “Santorum wants to be in your bedroom”. That is a lie!!! He just doesn’t want taxpayers to be FORCED to PAY for your bedroom habits! And he is pro-life which anyone with a head on there shoulders is. Life is a constitutional right! Life is medically defined as the presense of a heartbeat, which occurs at 6 weeks of life.

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    • West Coast Patriot
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 2:51pm

      MT, watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1Gwwmm-cQxU#

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    • mtcountrygrl
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 3:06pm

      Taken out of context and edited. Sorry. I have heard him respond to this stuff. What he was talking about was you can’t remove all government in a society that has no moral foundation. And that is true. You Ron Paul guys think your guy is the messiah just like Obama followers. Santorum does have a few faults and bad votes but overall he is the best choice still in the race. And I watched the interview of him on this issue (unedited) and what he was talking about is the Libertarian belief that we should be free from all government. Which would be great if we were a moral society. Be we are no longer a moral society and without any regulation we would dissolve into humanistic anarchy. Glen interviewed him on this point and his answer was great. We need laws to protect life for instance. He is not talking about laws to tell you, you can’t have sex or what possition to be in. You are forwarding on liberal propaganda my friend. And Ron Paul is not un-flawed himself nor is he the messiah.

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    • West Coast Patriot
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 4:22pm

      I would not call Judge Napolitano a liberal. Anyway, Santorum does not have a chance. The only thing that makes blood shoot out of my eyes is the thought of Romney as Prez.

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    • mtcountrygrl
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 5:07pm

      The only reason Santorum doesn’t have a chance is because Paul and Newt are still in the race. If they would throw their support behind him and get out, he would clean Romneys clock. I would love to see Santorum / West 2012. Alan West has strength in areas where Santorum gives me concern. And I would love to see them make Paul the Fed Chairman and Newt the White House Spokesperson / in charge of the press corp. You could put Romney in charge of auditing federally funded agencies for efficiency. That would be playing to EVERYONES strengths.

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    • mtcountrygrl
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 5:07pm

      The only reason Santorum doesn’t have a chance is because Paul and Newt are still in the race. If they would throw their support behind him and get out, he would clean Romneys clock. I would love to see Santorum / West 2012. Alan West has strength in areas where Santorum gives me concern. And I would love to see them make Paul the Fed Chairman and Newt the White House Spokesperson / in charge of the press corp. You could put Romney in charge of auditing federally funded agencies for efficiency. That would be playing to EVERYONES strengths.

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  • nothinghere
    Posted on March 15, 2012 at 12:03pm

    take some comfort in the fact that different people some day will be in charge, one whistle-blower,one lawyer and one civil class-action suit, could put a 500 billion dollar company back in some college storage room.

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  • Ghandi was a Republican
    Posted on March 15, 2012 at 12:03pm

    We must drain Nancy’s swamp once and for all. We must disinfect it with bleach, shoot gamma rays through it, rinse and repeat. 2010 was only a start. Fastest and most sure route? Newt 2012 and a Conservative majority through Congress on down to your school board, city council, Mayorship, And especially your attorney Generals.
    Only 1 candidate will articulate the imperative, understands the urgency and will articulate it. Newt 2012 ! A Ham sandwich can beat Obama once America understands alinsky! I do not care what the ham sandwich does in it’s own time. If it was found INNOCENT of 83 out of 83 Alinsky attacks, so much the better!~ No time for playing patty cake with Alinskycrats. No moderate/independent will support the Alinskycrat. Win Big or suffer the consequences of liberal infestation and deeply embedded Alinsky radicals in your Government. NEWT 2012..

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  • IMCHRISTIAN
    Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:52am

    How can a White House have employees that have been ex (?) criminals, troublemakers etc. and they are the ones checking out others. God is watching over all of us so when you look in the mirror you better be free of the things you are accusing or checking into on others and live a good, truthful, godly life yourself.

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    • cemerius
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 12:41pm

      The “President” would have NEVER been cleared for a Top Secret clearance IF he didn’t go the route of a pole-cat-ician!!

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    • IMCHRISTIAN
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 3:32pm

      CEM — true lol

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  • gingerbread
    Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:48am

    Now, how can this be? Aren’t these unelected govt agencies here to protect us? Protect us from whom? From ourselves? From a “TERRORIST”? Could it be, that these unelected bureaucrats want to protect themselves from the population? Is there anyone out there that doesn’t believe that this government is just out there to protect these UNELECTED BUREAUCRATS from the public outrage that they are causing?

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  • Searchingforthelight
    Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:35am

    Point in fact. My kids do homework from school that is sometimes on topics I would not approve of.
    My kids interests are based on their ages and gender. Do to limiting factors our family travels the world through the
    eyes of the computer. I’m an Americans Citizen and I Do care about world affairs, I live here and so do my loved ones. What do you think my google affairs looks like? How often do you think my information could be misinterpreted? Really, the government is going to waste tax payer dollars on that when there are children in our own back yard (U. S.) with no place to live?
    There has to be a better way. Or a better, smaller, government that can figure it out.

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    • HorseCrazy
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:44am

      good point. some of the things my school age child studies and has to research on the computer could be considered odd. As well I search all sorts of things on the internet I am sure some could be misinterpreted. I am tired of Big Brother and having to be concerned about everything I do how it could be interpreted.

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 12:24pm

      The Obama FBI doesn’t give a darn about anything except what threatens Obamanation, period. It could be a jihadist or Joe the Plumber. It’s as simple as that.

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  • hcartexas
    Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:31am

    If you say you dont trust your government…. what are you doing about it? Have you organized? Have you prepared? Have you joinded a militia? or have you just talked?

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  • PPMStudios
    Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:08am

    As a staunch Conservative, I remember complaining when the Patriot Act was first put in place and the government tried to get libraries to report when anyone checked out certain books. Folks I know said “If you’re not guilty of anything, why do you care if the government knows what you’re reading?”

    My response was always “this is where it starts. Give them an inch and they’ll take a mile.” To which some would offer a retort about me being paranoid… Well it’s coming…. Am I still ‘paranoid’?

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    • techengineer11
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:30am

      This is our Jewish Apartheid at its finest.. You haven’t seen nothing yet! Think NKVD.

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    • imsteph
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:32am

      Just because you’re paranoid-doesn’t mean they are out to get you!

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    • Cavallo
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:34am

      Nope, not paranoid at all. Consider me one of the converted. At one time I did say such things, mea culpa. I should have been more skeptical. Hindsight is always 20/20, but going forward looking back might allow us the wisdom to keep from being duped again. I hope.

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    • imsteph
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:37am

      Oops-that was suppose to say
      “Just because you are paranoid- doesn‘t mean they AREN’T out to get you!”
      My Bad!

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    • bluegost
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:38am

      The libs have been in the white house since Reagan left. The Bushs + Clinton were moving us toward socialism with the help of congress. 9/11 and Homeland Security changd the speed. Now the communist/muslim has put everything into overdrive. We are living in a commuist state and don’t even know it. The banks are finded heavely if they tell a customer they have to report a cash withdrawal of two thousand or more. The next four years will prove we are completely ruled by a police state but it will be too late. I sure hope I’m wrong but the evidence is everywhere.

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 12:44pm

      @bluegost
      Spot on. Look, this might sound prog, but the reality is that with all the terrorist activity on the Internet, and in sleeper cells, mosques, madrasas and so forth, I believe monitoring the international calls of potential Islamists was necessary. I also firmly believe it saved America from further attacks during the Bush admin.

      It’s different now. Once a commie gets into power, it’s a whole new ball game. You are absolutely correct that we are already living under communism and don’t know it yet. That‘s because we’re in Stage I, where power has not yet been consolidated. Obama is using a lot of subterfuge, but at one point he will have to take control of the Internet, like the Communist Party did in China. Then it’ll all be over. We can kiss our freedom goodbye.

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  • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
    Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:03am

    “Government requests Google users’ data 31 times each day)”
    —————————————————————————–
    Is it just Google users? If so, I am safe. SCREW Google and FaceBook. Both are in bed with this corrupt administration. Yahoo is starting to go that direction, too.

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    • MidWestMom
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:53am

      While I agree the government has no right to threaten private companies, let’s face facts. If you have a bank account, a mortgage, a credit card, public utilities, insurance, use anything but cash to buy stuff etc etc, they know or can know everything about you, what you do, how you spend your money etc.
      If the government wants personal information, they will get it one way or another, legally or illegally. They’ve been doing it for decades. The internet just makes it easier for them.

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    • Stoic one
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 12:00pm

      No, it is all IT providers.

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  • CulperGang
    Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:03am

    Free people treated like criminals in their own home land, while the criminals in government ARE not scrutinized and are destroying peace around the world. NONE of this could happen if the “uniforms” did not go along with this. If they arrested the real criminals. Their acquisence to these criminals in power will destroy their privacy and freedom too…….only the blowback is going to be on their kids. think on that when you kiss them good night. YOU people in uniform gave them a world of TSA, a world of paranoid cops, criminal murderers aka politician who will murder anyone that gets in their way.

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  • Belzar
    Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:03am

    Hell my life is an open book. I served in the military and needed a security clearance plus I had a state police security investigation when I applied for a specialty type business license.

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    • CulperGang
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:14am

      that is not the point. the point is that YOU a private citizen have no privacy……while the civil servant YOU employ HAS destroyed all his personal records WON’T SHOW YOU A BIRTHCERTIFICATE according to law!!! Is USING YOUR money to engage in criminality, starting wars, selling drugs and guns that is used to kill border patrol agents WHY IS HE NOT IN JAIL UNDER SERIOUS SCRUTINY?????? FREE people are not subject to the abuse of those whom they employ….you can’t get this??????? I have nothing to hide either BUT that is not the point. I HAVE A GOD GIVEN RIGHT TO BE LEFT ALONE!!!! I pay and DEMAND to know what I pay for yet the government shrouds themselves. THAT IS the point.

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    • Vic Tory
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:25am

      Where else can I go to get felt up for free?
      People pay good money for that sort of attention from strangers.

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 12:55pm

      @Belzar
      Hell my life is an open book.
      ———
      BEFORE a citizen can be disgraced, financially destroyed, tortured and/or killed by a totalitarian regime, his life has to become an open book.

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  • sndrman
    Posted on March 15, 2012 at 10:58am

    seems we forgot the tsa at the airport now has the right to feel anyone…all you need is a child molester to fall through the screening process,it happens everyday, to have his/her pick of kids….all they(gov’t) both (r,d) parties need is just pass a law saying it’s for national security…..and if you speak up off to the poky and for you to “think” about what you did……remember when klinton was under investigation for monica lewinsky. remember how the bookstore owner would not release the books bought by billy boy…..that was a national security issue right?

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    • CulperGang
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:06am

      National security??? the terrorist are in the white house.

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    • hillbillyinny
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:17am

      @ culpeppergang

      Amen! I would add an “s” to terrorist–terroristS are in the White House and advising them!

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  • THX-1138
    Posted on March 15, 2012 at 10:50am

    Years ago most people thought I was completely nuts when I said America was Over.
    Most of those people had never read 1984 or Animal Farm or Atlas Shrugged or any of the thousand books telling us what was going to happen. Telling us what Always Happens. Government is Cancer. It always kills the Host.

    There are fewer of those people now. Or at least, there are fewer speaking up.

    Look forward to a New Republic. We couldn’t keep this one. But that was inevitable.

    Prepare.

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    • Iamnotanumber
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:01am

      For over a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic. Before the dark times, before the Empire.”

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  • Minonkman
    Posted on March 15, 2012 at 10:48am

    If the FBI wants to know something about me, just ask me, or ask God when you get there. The time frame may take longer.

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  • B-Neil
    Posted on March 15, 2012 at 10:43am

    I’m starting to get a sence of how people occupied by the Nazis were feeling. Thank GOD I’m an American and posses the wherewithal thet buckling under oppression is not an option. For an individual to die for FREEDOM is a great contribution to the FREEDOM of all. GOD BLESS AMERICA and INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 1:13pm

      Unless you’re a Jew, that’s the wrong analogy. It took a world war, but we got rid of the Nazis. OTOH, the commies are still around. In fact, they’ve taken over our country- oh, and one of them — their top apparatchik — also happens to be a Muslim. Then there’s the black supremacist thingy… Are you getting the picture now?

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  • Itsjusttim
    Posted on March 15, 2012 at 10:38am

    Not much time now. If an hour is forty years, that doomsday clock should really be much closer to 12.

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    • COFemale
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:00am

      Please, please I beg you take your meds.

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    • barber2
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:04am

      Yes, ELIASIUM, please do as requested…

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    • Rajabear1
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 4:21pm

      @barber2–I knew it! Every time I saw his posts I kept thinking it has to be ‘that guy”, but I couldn’t remember what his name was…thanks for the memory jog.

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  • Smokey_Bojangles
    Posted on March 15, 2012 at 10:30am

    Big Muslim Brotherhood is watching you!

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  • amdoktor
    Posted on March 15, 2012 at 10:29am

    Both parties have been voting for less freedoms, rights and the dismantling of our Constitution. This is a issue for all the American people. Both conservatives and liberals need to address this and address this now. Vote for the only candidate that is for our Constitution and our personal liberties.
    God bless

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on March 15, 2012 at 10:25am

    Once more we see the abuse of the administration across the board via intimidation practices.

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    • OniKaze
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 10:41am

      I‘m not sure this is the Reich’s thing or if its just the FBI being as nosey as it can be….

      As much as I would like to blame this on Obama and his Ilk… Look at the graph and you see that this has been going on for a long time… and I am not sure that Das Fuhrer has ordered the S.S. to do this… I think it just may be the FBI trying to earn the Fuhrer’s favor by doing this on their own..

      But I admit, it IS entirely possible…

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    • Polarized America
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 10:58am

      Snow ……………..I get the feeling that you think the United States is going to be a warm fuzzy place full of kittens once Obomber is gone ….wait until they stop giving out information like this

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    • COFemale
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:07am

      The problem between Bush‘s version of the Patriot Act and Obama’s version is I don’t trust Obama. He will use it against anyone who speaks out against him or with Conservative groups. He has already labeled us as the violent ones, the racist ones, yet it is always the left who is commits violence and it is the left who always show their bigoted and racist views. The IRS is already discriminating against Tea Party and 9-12 non profits. It does not surprise me that some in the FBI are abusing their power. I am sure everyone on this site is on the FBI’s watch list; we know definitely Glenn Beck is and all his employee’s. I also stopped using Google a long time ago and I would never log on to their site.

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    • NanAugie
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:14am

      @ Dishevel – I wouldn’t clear Obama that easily….the Patriot Act was just a rewrite of a Bill that Joe Biden sponsored years before…both sides are guilty here.

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    • Vickie Dhaene
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:29am

      I trust in God and I will not be afraid.

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 1:28pm

      It HAS been going on for a long time, against our enemies. Now, it‘s going on against OBAMA’s enemies. That’s you and me and everyone else who loves America. And some of you, please stop calling Obama a Nazi. Hitler was as evil as they come, but he was a nationalist to the very core of his being. He wanted to make Germany the greatest nation on earth and all other nations subservient to them. Obama, however, is a foreign-minded Alinskyian. He wants America to decrease, and the commie-Islamic UN to become more powerful. Geez, wake up.

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  • Itsjusttim
    Posted on March 15, 2012 at 10:24am

    Hey, let them collect all they want because they will never have chance to actually use it. Didn’t I say the hour of the Lord has already been going on for forty years?

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    • Itsjusttim
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 10:27am

      And there’s nothing you can do about it.

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    • Itsjusttim
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 10:29am

      Not much time left at all before all the walls start tumbling down.

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  • Mark0331
    Posted on March 15, 2012 at 10:22am

    Amendment IV…‘probable cause’ now means whatever a stranger in law enforcement deems ‘probable’…blanket demands for a companies info regarding all clients seems a little much…curioser and curioser

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  • JohnTwoFeathers
    Posted on March 15, 2012 at 10:20am

    Big Brother is watching

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  • copatriots
    Posted on March 15, 2012 at 10:19am

    Sheeple give so much personal information via FB and gmail accounts that I wouldn’t think Big Brother would have much difficulty compiling it. Oops…….I forgot for a second how much lefties love wasting money to bring the whole system down.

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    • MissDeeCee
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:33am

      Lefties love spending money on anything. Don’t forget some of the lefties have a FB account too. You can see what they say then, turn the TV on and watch them deny it or say something entirely different.
      But, you don’t have to have a FB, Twitter, My Space or other account for them to get information. They gather info from bank acct’s, medical offices, schools, people taking polls on line, credit card companies, work places, it is endless.
      This has become a spy nation on it’s own people, not to mention trying to take everything that belongs to them.

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