Doug Thompson publishes a follow-up

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Monday Doug posted about getting a National Security Letter from the FBI asking for information about him, how much traffic Capitol Hill Blue gets, and other information.

Actually, it went to the company hosting Capitol Hill Blue, and they weren't supposed to let Doug know about it. But Doug owns that company. So he isn't supposed to tell himself he got the letter.

His Tuesday column starts like this:

On an unspecified day last week an employee of a federal agency that cannot be revealed delivered a document that cannot be identified to a company that cannot be named seeking information that cannot be discussed.

The aforementioned federal agent left the unidentified document with an employee of the unnamed company. That employee then called the owner, who must remain anonymous, to inform him that the document that could not be identified sought information that could not be discussed. The owner who must remain anonymous instructed the employee to deliver the unidentified document to a lawyer whose name is protected by attorney-client privilege.

The lawyer whose name is protected by attorney-client privilege examined the unidentified document and then reviewed the information that could not be discussed with the owner who must remain anonymous.

With the approval of the owner who must remain anonymous, the lawyer whose name is protected by attorney-client privilege contacted a U.S. attorney who demanded that his identity be concealed.

(You can see the rest at http://www.capitolhillblue.com/blog/2006/03/telling_the_approved_story.html)