Dan Goodin reports:
The FBI has finally come clean on the real reason it doesn’t want to name phone and internet service providers that participate in a sweeping surveillance program that taps international communications without a warrant: Customers would get mad and dump or sue the providers.
This rare piece of honesty came in a recently filed court declaration (PDF) from a top FBI official arguing why the agency shouldn’t have to supply the names in response to a Freedom of Information request filed by the American Civil Liberties Union.
Read more in The Register.