OLC Memo on FBI-Telco Cooperation

Marc Ambinder has an interesting post on a yet-to-be-released, classified Office of Legal Counsel memorandum on the FBI’s authority to seek the “voluntary” disclosure of some records by telecommunications companies.  The memo was issued on January 8, apparently in response to a request from the FBI, and is referenced in an unredacted portion of this DoJ Office of Inspector General report on the FBI’s use of Exigent Letters and other informal requests for telephone records from telecommunications providers.

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