"Six months before, we got a notice from the San Francisco F.B.I., saying they were going to give us a national-security letter [...] And we couldn’t figure out why they would say they were going to give us this letter! Kind of an odd thing to do [...] And they didn’t give us one, not at that time. It was later that they did."<p>This is a fascinating glimpse into the logistical aspects. Either the FBI was trolling to see if they'd roll over easily, or they were baiting them into some kind of reaction. I wonder what would have happened had they gone super public with their "we plan on NSLing you" notification?
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God damn I so tired of this all.<p><i>“I did go home that night and over dinner with my family, I said, “Ask me what it was I did today, and remember my answer.” So my son, who was, I don’t know, nine, or something like that, asked me, “Daddy, what did you do today?” And I said, “I can’t tell you.” That was the only thing I said, and then months and months and months went by.</i><p>Just so utterly defeatingly unacceptable. This is not my America.