{"id":350,"date":"2007-10-09T12:29:27","date_gmt":"2007-10-09T17:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/09\/excellent-new-dvd-on-fbi-national-security-letter-abuses\/"},"modified":"2007-10-09T12:29:27","modified_gmt":"2007-10-09T17:29:27","slug":"excellent-new-dvd-on-fbi-national-security-letter-abuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/09\/excellent-new-dvd-on-fbi-national-security-letter-abuses\/","title":{"rendered":"Excellent new DVD on FBI National Security Letter Abuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bordc.org\">Bill of Rights Defense Committee<\/a><\/strong> just released an excellent new\u00a0DVD: <em>FBI\u00a0Unbound: How National Security Letters Violate Our Privacy<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The DVD features interviews with\u00a0George Christian, the executive director of Library Connection, the Connecticut organization that courageously refused to comply with an FBI National Security Letter (NSL)\u00a0and helped make the letters a national controversy.\u00a0\u00a0 Lisa Graves of the Center for National Security Studies provides insights into the sweep of the NSLs.\u00a0 Bruce Fein, the executive director of American Freedom Agenda, puts the peril of NSLs into perspective.<\/p>\n<p>BORDC executive director Nancy Talanian commented, &#8220;<em>FBI Unbound <\/em>puts the FBI&#8217;s use of a far-reaching power in focus and invites viewers to ask whether they want law enforcement to have unlimited, unchecked access to records of Americans with no suspected ties to terrorism. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More information on the DVD and ordering information is available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fbiunbound.org\/\">www.fbiunbound.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bill of Rights Defense Committee just released an excellent new\u00a0DVD: FBI\u00a0Unbound: How National Security Letters Violate Our Privacy.&#8221; 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