Death Cab for Cutie guitarist's solo album confiscated by Homeland Security

Chris Walla, the guitarist and producer of Death Cab for Cutie recently found himself on the strange end of the law when a hard drive containing his solo album was seized by Homeland Security.

Walla had been working on the album in Canada and was shipping it to his label, Barsuk, when it was seized and given to Homeland Security's computer forensics departments, probably in a search for Osama bin Laden who may be hiding on the hard drive. He added:

[The courier] got to the border and he had all his paperwork and it was all cool, only they turned him away, and they confiscated the drive and gave it to the computer–forensics division of our Homeland Security–type people, And now I couldn't even venture a guess as to where it is, or what it's doing there. I mean, I can't just call their customer–service center and ask about my drive. There's nothing I can do. I don't know if we can hire an attorney ... is there a black–hole attorney? You can't take a black hole to court.

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