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ustice demands 1.3M IP addresses related to Trump resistance site
The Hill ^ | 8/14/2017 | Morgan Chalfant

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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: agsessions; antifa; dcriots; domesticterrorism; dreamhost; trumpdoj; trumpinauguration
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1 posted on 08/14/2017 4:54:35 PM PDT by grayboots
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To: grayboots

It was okay when Benito Obama was targeting conservative groups...


2 posted on 08/14/2017 4:57:26 PM PDT by Hotlanta Mike (You for avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: grayboots

Sounds like Mueller was lying about not being on a Fishing Trip....


3 posted on 08/14/2017 4:57:39 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: grayboots

Time for a midnight raid!


4 posted on 08/14/2017 4:57:49 PM PDT by Revolutionary ("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!")
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To: grayboots

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.


5 posted on 08/14/2017 4:58:16 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Drain the Swamp is not party specific. Lyn' Ted is still a liar, Good riddance to him.)
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To: grayboots

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..


6 posted on 08/14/2017 5:00:43 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: Hotlanta Mike

Another good moniker for the wun.


7 posted on 08/14/2017 5:01:16 PM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: grayboots

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


8 posted on 08/14/2017 5:01:47 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Paladin2

Don’t think this is Mueller, I think this is Sessions, targeting the Soros puppets.


9 posted on 08/14/2017 5:06:05 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
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To: Lazamataz

Soros openly funds rioters to travel the USA ,,, when is that old dirtbag going to bunk with Rufus?


10 posted on 08/14/2017 5:12:02 PM PDT by Neidermeyer (Show me a peaceful Muslim and I will show you a heretic to the Koran.)
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To: Lazamataz

That would be good, but I have yet to see any indications that Sessions is at all interested in investigating any leftist.


11 posted on 08/14/2017 5:12:33 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: Paladin2

How smart would he be if he let such information about ongoing investigations become public?


12 posted on 08/14/2017 5:24:37 PM PDT by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: bigbob

Leaks? More like some kind of sieve system design.


13 posted on 08/14/2017 5:27:08 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: grayboots

"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.

14 posted on 08/14/2017 5:31:07 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: grayboots

“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.


16 posted on 08/14/2017 5:37:14 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: CaptainCarrollton
I do remember that now.....

OK, what has he done lately?

17 posted on 08/14/2017 6:04:13 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: grayboots

This is not about free speech, this is about inciting a riot. Big difference. Nice the see DOJ go after law breakers.


18 posted on 08/14/2017 6:29:15 PM PDT by Lockbox
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To: Lazamataz

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.?


19 posted on 08/14/2017 6:54:09 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: Neidermeyer

He’ll live as long as he serves Satan well


20 posted on 08/14/2017 7:13:02 PM PDT by Mamzelle
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