I was perhaps not as clear as I should have been in my eagerness to get my piece out a couple days ago about having been one of the first in the country to have warned (albeit unsuccessfully) about the potential dangers of the FBI's use of NSLs after 9-11. I should have better explained the euphemistic terms I chose in 2003:
"The delegation of authority down to SACs has greatly streamlined and speeded up the process of issuing...
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