Between 1,000 and 1,999 counterterrorism or counterintelligence subpoenas...
Between 1,000 and 1,999 counterterrorism or counterintelligence subpoenas were issued by the FBI to AT&T during the first six months of the year, involving between 2,000 and 2,999 customer accounts, AT&T said in its transparency report (http://soc.att.com/1j8il6O) issued Friday. In…
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addition, the company received up to 999 court orders under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act affecting between 33,000 and 33,999 customer accounts in the last six months of last year. The company is allowed to release the statistics only as a range under the guidance issued by the Department of Justice, the report said. In addition to those National Security Demands (NSD), AT&T also received 115,925 criminal and civil federal, state and local government subpoenas, court orders and search warrants during the first six months of 2014, the report said. The company rejected, challenged or gave no or partial information in 31,097, or about a quarter of those non-NSD cases, the report said. The report did not say how many of the NSD cases it challenged or provided partial information.