However, "field agents" in the FBI and other investigative bodies had been restricted from reading the internet the same way they might read a newspaper. Didn't mean others at FBI and in various federal agencies couldn't do that but the "field agents" themselves had to get administrative warrants to do so.
BTW, net cruising had to be done outside the framework of the agencies own internet setup so government files were not subject to penetration.
There's really nothing new here unless, of course, you don't think of the internet as the press.
The FBI used to operate two separate networks: one for the external Internet and one with their internal files.
“If you can accept the fact that the internet IS the press,”
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Yeh!
The internet (News online, bloggers, emailers, websites, etc.)IS the press; the old press is now just the fourth estate of gunmint as most folks now know...