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Washington Times sues Homeland over seizure of reporter’s notes
The Washington Times ^ | November 21, 2013 | Kellan Howell

Posted on 11/21/2013 4:14:32 PM PST by jazusamo

Newspaper accuses feds of unlawful search and seizure

The Washington Times and one of its former journalists have sued the Department of Homeland Security, accusing federal agents of illegally seizing the newspaper’s reporting materials during the execution of a search warrant in an unrelated case.

In a motion filed in federal court in Greenbelt, Md., The Times and reporter Audrey Hudson asked a judge to force the federal agency to return all reporting files and documents it seized from Ms. Hudson’s home office during a raid in early August.

Click here to view a PDF file of the motion

The newspaper alleged federal agents accompanying Maryland State Police on the raid took materials from Ms. Hudson’s office that were not covered by the search warrant that authorized the collection solely of evidence about guns and a potato launcher allegedly possessed by her husband, Paul Flanagan.

The seized materials included documents the newspaper had obtained under the Freedom of Information Act as well as notes and memos that identified confidential sources from a series of investigative stories that exposed problems inside Homeland's Air Marshal Service.



(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: 1stamendment; 2ndamendment; 4thamendment; audreyhudson; brownshirts; dhs; firstamendment; fourthamendment; greenbelt; obama; tyranny
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Feds took Times reporter’s notes from police evidence room

1 posted on 11/21/2013 4:14:32 PM PST by jazusamo
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To: jazusamo

Wasn’t the times okay with them going after fox news?


2 posted on 11/21/2013 4:24:51 PM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Darksheare

I honestly don’t know, hopefully someone can shed some light on it.


3 posted on 11/21/2013 4:28:33 PM PST by jazusamo ([Obama] A Truly Great Phony -- Thomas Sowell http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3058949/posts)
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To: jazusamo

Fingers crossed that they come along and correct/ elaborate on it as my knowledge is spotty and incomplete on the subject.


4 posted on 11/21/2013 4:37:49 PM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: jazusamo; 3D-JOY; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; Albion Wilde; AliVeritas; alisasny; ...

Combined General and Maryland “Freak State” PING!


5 posted on 11/23/2013 9:20:08 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (...)
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To: null and void

Follow-up on a real conspiracy.


6 posted on 11/23/2013 9:20:55 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (...)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Follow-up on a real conspiracy.

Thanks for the ping. I'm following this closely. I have a feeling that many of the "modern" conspiracy issues are worse than we want to know.
7 posted on 11/23/2013 9:25:17 PM PST by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks; COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; ...

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...

8 posted on 11/23/2013 9:46:18 PM PST by null and void (I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
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To: jazusamo

The Plan:

DOJ + NSA + IRS = KGB


9 posted on 11/24/2013 6:07:55 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: 2nd amendment mama

ping!

It’s getting creepier and creepier out there........


10 posted on 11/24/2013 6:07:59 AM PST by basil (2ASisters.org)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

A potato launcher? If these fascists were not so serious about their attack on our freedom, I would be laughing about that part.


11 posted on 11/24/2013 7:06:19 AM PST by Bigg Red (Let me hear what God the LORD will speak. -Ps85)
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To: null and void

good I hope they win


12 posted on 11/24/2013 7:39:49 AM PST by Nifster
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To: Nifster

Me too.


13 posted on 11/24/2013 8:03:35 AM PST by null and void (I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
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To: Darksheare

It’s the Washington Times, which is the anti-New York Times.


14 posted on 11/24/2013 10:36:10 AM PST by TheOldLady
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To: jazusamo

Censored?


15 posted on 11/24/2013 10:43:25 AM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation

Hi Salvation, not following your censored remark.


16 posted on 11/24/2013 11:03:36 AM PST by jazusamo ([Obama] A Truly Great Phony -- Thomas Sowell http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3058949/posts)
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