The American Library Association (ALA) applauded a decision by a federal judge in New York who ruled that the gag order associated with National Security Letters (NSLs)—even though the provision was relaxed somewhat upon the revision last year of the USA PATRIOT Act—violates First Amendment guarantees of free speech. "The FBI's serious and widespread abuse of NSLs has confirmed many of ALA's concerns about the lack of oversight into the FBI's surveillance activities," said ALA president-elect Jim Rettig in a news release.
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