You should know that the FBI is using the phone records database I was talking about in the last entry to find the people who talk to reporters anonymously.
This, I think, is the best bit from the article, just in case anyone still thinks the USA-PATRIOT Act was a good idea:
Officials say the FBI makes extensive use of a new provision of the Patriot Act which allows agents to seek information with what are called National Security Letters (NSL).
The NSLs are a version of an administrative subpoena and are not signed by a judge. Under the law, a phone company receiving a NSL for phone records must provide them and may not divulge to the customer that the records have been given to the government.
Just so you know, that means that if you blow a whistle to the reporters, the FBI can find out without you even knowing they did, and without having to go through the courts. One more step towards the secret police, I'm warning you.
