A Federal judge in New York has struck down one of the tools the FBI has been using as part of the Patriot Act. Security Letters, which compelled communications businesses to turn over their records to the FBI and prevented those companies from telling their customers what they have done.
Judge Marrero said he feared that the law could be the first step in a series of intrusions into the judiciary’s role that would be “the legislative equivalent of breaking and entering, with an ominous free pass to the hijacking of constitutional values.”
Its the first attempt to reel in the FBI. They were going in the direction of the "Elliot Ness" days.
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