"I resent being conscripted as a secret informer for the government"

the informers among us...

a recipient of a national security letter speaks out anonymously... he refused to release the requested information and is engaged in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the nsl power... he has been living under a gag order since 2004...

I resent being conscripted as a secret informer for the government and being made to mislead those who are close to me, especially because I have doubts about the legitimacy of the underlying investigation.

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I recognize that there may sometimes be a need for secrecy in certain national security investigations. But I've now been under a broad gag order for three years, and other NSL recipients have been silenced for even longer. At some point -- a point we passed long ago -- the secrecy itself becomes a threat to our democracy. In the wake of the recent revelations, I believe more strongly than ever that the secrecy surrounding the government's use of the national security letters power is unwarranted and dangerous. I hope that Congress will at last recognize the same thing.

how very chilling... this is the very dark and disturbing world the bush administration has created for the citizens of a supposedly "free" country...

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