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In the case of a national security letter, you have to sue the U.S. government. It's rare, but possible. The Internet Archive did it, and won.

http://archive.org/post/192021/fbi-gag-order-against-the-int...



that looks like they fought the request and won, but that the gag order was in place until the FBI actually withdrew the national security letter.

Maybe it's what you meant, but it seems that there's no way to get the gag order removed without also getting the letter withdrawn.


I suppose you could sue for the right to break the gag order, while still supplying the information, but I'm not a legal expert.




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