FBI Director James Comey knows that if his agents
get caught violating the Constitution, any evidence obtained from
their searches will be invalid. Yet his agents can and do write
their own unconstitutioanl search warrants. The Patriot Act calls
these warrants by the euphemism “national security letters.”
The list of third parties that can be subjected to an
agent-written search warrant includes virtually all entities
required by law to keep records. And recipients of these letters
are forbidden from even telling anyone they’ve recieved one. It is
this section of the Patriot Act that is being challenged by Twitter
and Google in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, explains Andrew
Napolitano. The tech companies have apparently received many of
these unconstitutional agent-written warrants, and they want their
customers to know what the government is doing.
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