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Stupid but serious question...

If I get a National Security Letter am I allowed to show it to my lawyer? If so, is there any limit to the number of people in my legal council? If NOT, what's stopping having everyone in the country as my legal council. Then, as I can only show the National Security Letter to my lawyers, I can then host the NSL on my website for everyone to see.

Crazy or illegal?




Ladar Levison claimed, "There's information that I can't even share with my lawyer, let alone with the American public."[0] I'm not familiar enough to say whether this level of gag is legally documented, or has been upheld, etc.

[0] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/08/lavabit-founder-u...


I'd say that you'd have a hard time arguing that you had made the entire world your legal counsel. There's no contract in place, etc.




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