"Be vewy, vewy quiet... we're hunting Russians!"
The media wants Justice to hunt down any connection between our politics and the Russians!
Seriously, seems a little over-reachy.
Posted on 08/14/2017 4:54:35 PM PDT by grayboots
The Department of Justice has requested information on visitors to a website used to organize protests against President Trump, the Los Angeles-based Dreamhost said in a blog post published on Monday.
Dreamhost, a web hosting provider, said that it has been working with the Department of Justice for several months on the request, which believes goes too far under the Constitution.
DreamHost claimed that the complying with the request from the Justice Department would amount to handing over roughly 1.3 million visitor IP addresses to the government, in addition to contact information, email content and photos of thousands of visitors to the website, which was involved in organizing protests against Trump on Inauguration Day. “That information could be used to identify any individuals who used this site to exercise and express political speech protected under the Constitution’s First Amendment,” DreamHost wrote in the blog post on Monday. “That should be enough to set alarm bells off in anyone’s mind.”
When contacted, the Justice Department directed The Hill to the U.S. attorney's office in D.C.
The company is currently challenging the request. A hearing on the matter is scheduled for Friday in Washington.
“In essence, the Search Warrant not only aims to identify the political dissidents of the current administration, but attempts to identify and understand what content each of these dissidents viewed on the website,” the company’s general counsel, Chris Ghazarian, said in a legal argument opposing the request.
The web provider published a purported search warrant issued by the Superior Court of the District of Columbia that asks for records and information related to the website and its owner, along with information that could be used to identify subscribers of the website.
This includes “names, addresses, telephone numbers and other identifiers, e-mail addresses, business information, the length of service (including start date), means and source of payment for services (including any credit card or bank account number), and information about any domain name registration.”
The warrant, dated July 12, says that authorities will seize any information constituting violations of D.C. code governing riots that involve individuals connected to the protests on Inauguration Day.
More than 200 people were indicted on felony rioting charges in connection with the protests in Washington on Jan. 20.
It was okay when Benito Obama was targeting conservative groups...
Sounds like Mueller was lying about not being on a Fishing Trip....
Time for a midnight raid!
If the judge issued it, comply. Maybe the court will hold it while reviewing complaint. But wherein people make threats, conspire to commit violence, let sunshine give everyone some needed transparency. Prosecute those acting on their hate and bigotry.
You can have your free speech, but if the site is being used to organize violence or terrorist activity, that’s where the 1st amendment ends. Tough sh..
Another good moniker for the wun.
The commies demanded reactions and are beginning to see reactions.
Merck’s CEO quits Trump’s council over Charlottesville, the president claps back
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2017/08/14/mercks-ceo-quits-trumps-council-over-charlottesville/564125001/
Trump ‘seriously considering’ a pardon for ex-Sheriff Joe Arpaio
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/08/14/trump-seriously-considering-pardon-for-sheriff-joe-arpaio.html
Don’t think this is Mueller, I think this is Sessions, targeting the Soros puppets.
Soros openly funds rioters to travel the USA ,,, when is that old dirtbag going to bunk with Rufus?
That would be good, but I have yet to see any indications that Sessions is at all interested in investigating any leftist.
How smart would he be if he let such information about ongoing investigations become public?
Leaks? More like some kind of sieve system design.
"Be vewy, vewy quiet... we're hunting Russians!"
The media wants Justice to hunt down any connection between our politics and the Russians!
Seriously, seems a little over-reachy.
“used to organize protests “
I know I should just trust the press without question but...
Was the site used to organize riots or other illegal activities?
Were users posting pics of the heads they cracked on the street?
Not that I can say I trust the gov completely on this either.
As usual, the source article is missing too much relevant info to be truly useful.
OK, what has he done lately?
This is not about free speech, this is about inciting a riot. Big difference. Nice the see DOJ go after law breakers.
In that case, Sessions is running an investigation where he does not want to, and should not, show his hand too early. It would be good to see Georgy Schwartz frog marched. Then could we see extradition requests from Hungary, Russia, Malaysia, Thailand, etc.?
He’ll live as long as he serves Satan well
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