Judge Orders FBI To Release Records
June 15, 2007
| 3:04 PM
Late afternoon news on a Friday is my favorite (sarcasm noted)… but this item from the Electronic Frontier Foundation is worth blogging. Marcia Hofmann, a staff attorney for the watchdog group, reports that a federal judge has ordered the FBI to process 2,500 pages of records about its abuse of National Security Letters by July 5 and another 2,500 every 30 days thereafter.
The ruling was in response to EFF's Freedom of Information Act request and lawsuit filed earlier this year, Hofmann said. More evidence of abuse was uncovered by the Washington Post this week and EFF urged the court to act. Read the judge's order here; EFF's supplemental memo here; and the Post article here.
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