NSL Countdown.

Another brick from the wall...A US District judge in New York declares that the FBI's secret use of "national security letters" (NSLs) under the Patriot Act is unconstitutional, violating the First Amendment and the separation of powers clause. "Marrero wrote in his 106-page ruling that Patriot Act provisions related to NSLs are 'the legislative equivalent of breaking and entering, with an ominous free pass to the hijacking of constitutional values.'"