Just a few weeks ago, we wrote about the FBI pushing strongly for an update to the law that covers National Security Letters (NSLs) to cover up the fact that the FBI has been using them to get electronic communications records. The current law on NSLs doesn‘t cover that information, though the FBI insists that it‘s just a „typo“ in the law, and still frequently asks for them in its NSLs, because NSL recipients often don‘t know the law themselves and will still turn over the info. Of course, it helps that the NSLs often come with gag orders. Reports going back a decade have shown that the FBI has a serious problem with abusing its NSL powers to get lots of information it‘s not supposed to have. And rather than do something to stop such abuses, the FBI‘s friends in Congress have, instead, been trying to legalize such abusive practices to allow the FBI to do even more.