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Last night, Mike German, Policy Counsel at our Washington Legislative Office, about Thursday's release of the Department of Justice's (DOJ) Office of Inspector General's (NSL). Mike discusses the implications of this abuse, and describes how the DOJ office charged with oversight of the FBI's NSL use felt bullied by agents trying to get around constitutional safeguards. Mike writes:

Recognizing how the FBI subverts internal controls is important because after the last IG audit the FBI and DoJ issued new guidelines and policies they claim will fix the problems with the FBI's use of its Patriot Act powers. But you can't fix problems you don't admit you have.

In related NSL news, last week we asked a federal appeals court to uphold Judge Victor Marrero's decision that struck down the NSL provision of the Patriot Act. Judge Marrero of the Southern District of New York ruled NSLs violate the First Amendment and directly subvert the constitutional separation of powers.