(05-07) 18:03 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- Brewster Kahle, who runs an online library in San Francisco, was appalled when his volunteer lawyers told him in November that the FBI was demanding records of all communications with one of his patrons as part of an investigation of "international terrorism or clandestine intelligence activities."

The FBI document, called a national security letter, told Kahle he could be prosecuted if he discussed the subject with anyone but his lawyers, and allowed him to speak with his attorneys only in person. Kahle said his Internet Archive, which has 500,000 card-holders, doesn't even keep the records the FBI was seeking.

The rest of this appalling stotry can be found at teh following link:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/08/MN7C10IJ17.DTL


Note: appalling because the government tried this bull**** int he first place.