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Vegas paper gets subpoena to ID online commenters
Washington Post ^ | 6-16-09 | AP

Posted on 06/16/2009 4:56:38 PM PDT by JohnKSmith

LAS VEGAS -- A Nevada newspaper says it has been served a federal grand jury subpoena seeking information about readers who posted comments on the paper's Web site.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Tuesday that its editor, Thomas Mitchell, plans to fight the request, which the newspaper received after reporting on a federal tax fraud case against business owner Robert Kahre.

The subpoena seeks the identities and personal information about people who posted comments on the story. The newspaper said prosecutors told the judge in the case that some comments hinted at acts of violence and the subpoena was issued out of concern for jurors' safety.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: bho44; bigbrother; bigbrotheriswatching; fascism; fubo; ilovebigbrother; sotomayor
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To: VicVega

O will begin with FNC


21 posted on 06/16/2009 6:28:42 PM PDT by Carley (OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
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To: Carley

“O will begin with FNC”

Some heavy muslim dollars are invested in FNC, so they will be fine. 0 just has to act like he doesn’t like them. 0 would never go against the muslim brotherhood.

The real news and the threat to the administration is on the web.


22 posted on 06/16/2009 6:32:56 PM PDT by VicVega (Join Jihad, get captured by the US and resettled in the best places in the world. I love the USA)
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To: Jim Robinson

May God bless you, Jim Rob.


23 posted on 06/16/2009 6:53:29 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (When the time comes, right thinking men will know what to do.)
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To: Rebelbase

see Keyword: saltytalk


24 posted on 06/16/2009 7:13:36 PM PDT by deks
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To: penelopesire; seekthetruth; television is just wrong; jcsjcm; BP2; Pablo Mac; April Lexington; ...
~~Targeting folks who respond to online articles ... just like us!!!!.................. PING!

The subpoena seeks the identities and personal information about people who posted comments on the story.

25 posted on 06/17/2009 8:38:46 AM PDT by STARWISE (The Art & Science Institute of Chicago Politics NE Div: now open at the White House)
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To: STARWISE
With the Lawless One in office, it's full steam ahead on trampling people's Civil Rights.
26 posted on 06/17/2009 8:46:27 AM PDT by 444Flyer (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.--Orwell)
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To: AliVeritas; jveritas; MeekOneGOP; Ernest_at_the_Beach; NormsRevenge; backhoe; holdonnow
“"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.

But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men.

He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murder is less to fear."

Cicero Marcus Tullius

27 posted on 06/17/2009 8:46:59 AM PDT by STARWISE (The Art & Science Institute of Chicago Politics NE Div: now open at the White House)
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To: VicVega
“You are right.

The 0 appointed internet czar will try to shut down as many sites as they can in the next few years that oppose him.”

This subpoena is a warning shot. They want us to know they are watching. It is a subtler form of intimidation and threat. A form of psychological warfare really. Shut em’ up through intimidation. Go back to your dark rooms and stop speaking out or we will come after you.

28 posted on 06/17/2009 8:58:26 AM PDT by 444Flyer (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.--Orwell)
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To: JohnKSmith; All
Our Canadian sister site is facing this ( among other threats ) and has been for several years- click the picture:


29 posted on 06/17/2009 11:03:16 AM PDT by backhoe (All across America, the Lights are going out...)
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