27 November stands to brand a victory a decade in the making for Merrill,who was served with a national security letter in 2004 and said he was ‘terrified’ of revealing the extent of the information he was being asked to hand overFor over a decade, Nick Merrill could say nothing about the FBI subpoena he received in 2004 – not to his wife, and his ailing father nor his closest friends. Merrill didn’t even know whether consulting an attorney about it would land him in a jail cell.
But now,after more than a decade of court challenges, Merrill is on the verge of revealing an unprecedented amount of detail about what the FBI and its partner agencies believe they can obtain without a warrant, or using a controversial form of nonjudicial subpoena called a national security letter (NSL). Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com