The letters must be sent to the organization rather than an individual. The idea of going to an individual employee and strongarming them may happen, but the law around NSLs is specific.
The court cases to date indicate that if an individual employee got a US NSL and sued over it, the judge would likely take actions that would end the FBI agents careers. Such individual strongarming would almost certainly use threats or MICE (money, ideology, compromise, ego) enticements and no paper trail to have to testify over in court later. George William Herbert Sent from my iPhone On Aug 1, 2013, at 2:31 AM, Robert Rohde <raro...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Luis Villa <lvi...@wikimedia.org> wrote: >> As a quick reminder here, before any conspiracy theories about orders and >> data retention get out of control: >> >> 1) We've flat-out denied any sort of involvement in this, and we continue >> to stand by that denial: >> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/06/14/prism-surveillance-wikimedia/ >> >> 2) Take with a grain of salt, of course, but our understanding (based on >> the few gag orders that have been made public) is that we could be forced >> to not confirm having received a National Security Letter, but we can't >> actually be forced to lie about it. In other words, if we'd received one we >> would not be allowed to say "we've received one", but we also could not be >> forced to deny it - we'd always have the option to remain silent instead. > <snip> > > If we are going to chase crazy down the rabbit hole, then it may be > worth noticing that the NSL gag order makes it a crime to discuss NSL > demands with anyone except A) personal legal counsel, and B) persons > who are directly necessary to fulfill the demand. In particular, if I > (as an individual) am served with an NSL then there is no provision > allowing me to tell my boss or my subordinates unless I directly need > their help to satisfy the request. If someone with root access were > directly served with an NSL, it isn't obvious that WMF executives > would ever learn about it. This is one of the ways that NSL gag > orders are ridiculous. > > -Robert Rohde > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
