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ACLU Wins Challenge to Patriot Act NSL Provision
American Civil Liberties Union: May 9, 2008

http://www.aclu.org/safefree/nationalsecurityletters/internetarchive.html
Video: http://blog.aclu.org/index.php?/archives/676-Gag-Lifted,-Brewster-Speaks!.html

The ACLU won a hard-fought victory in another legal challenge to the national security letter (NSL) provision of the Patriot Act. As the result of a settlement agreement, the FBI this week withdrew an unconstitutional national security letter issued to the Internet Archive and agreed to unseal the case, finally allowing the Archive’s founder to speak out for the first time about his battle against the record demand…The NSL, issued in November of 2007, asked for personal information about one of the Archive’s users, including the individual’s name, address, and any electronic communication transactional records pertaining to the user. Brewster Kahle, founder and digital librarian of the Internet Archive <http://www.archive.org/>, decided to fight the NSL because it exceeded the FBI’s limited authority to issue such demands to libraries. The lawsuit is the first known challenge to an NSL served on a library since Congress amended the national security letter provision in 2006 to limit the FBI’s power to demand records from libraries.