Daily Kos wrote in Conspiracy to Lie to Congress? that FBI director Robert Mueller quite possibly lied to Congress (a felony) about using National Security Letters to obtain private information about people.
"The FBI knew that the university records were not obtainable via an NSL, and the university properly rejected that request--a request that had already fulfilled once, legally in response to a grand jury subpoena. And which was fulfilled, again, when the FBI field office came back with the proper subpoena after the whole exercise in NSL futility"
"Mueller, testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, portrayed the university as intransigent and said the incident showed the FBI needed the power to force the turnover of all sorts of records without having to involve the court system. 'Now in my mind, we should not, in that circumstance have to show somebody that this was an emergency,' Mueller testified on July 27, 2005. 'We should've been able to have a document, an administrative subpoena that we took to the university and got those records immediately.'"
The problem is, it wasn't an emergency and it was easy to use the existing legal system and in fact that was done before the FBI went back and tried to do it illegally. Someone fix this crap already.
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