You can not be made to lie. Legally, there are no Government privileges =
that obligates perjury.

You can be asked to keep quiet and in fact, discussing an ongoing case =
is risky in any event (NSA or local police).

Regards,
Dr Craig Wright (GSE-Compliance)



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From: Steve Shockley [steve.shockley@shockley.net]
Sent: Friday, 28 December 2007 5:11 AM
To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Cryptome: NSA has real-time access to Hushmail servers

Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> Note that if they had been served with an NSL (National Security =
Letter),
> they may be legally *required* to lie about it while cooperating. =
Actually
> truthfully saying "Yeah, an NSL showed up and we complied" could land =
them
> in jail....

Requred to lie, or just required to not disclose the cooperation?