Posted on 06/04/2021 3:34:15 PM PDT by algore
The FBI has asked USA Today for the IP addresses and phone numbers of everyone who read one of its articles during a 35-minute period in February as part of an ongoing child porn probe, in what the publisher is calling a violation of the First Amendment.
On February 2, FBI agents Daniel Alfin and Laura Schwartzenberger were killed and three others were wounded when 55-year-old David Huber started shooting as they approached his apartment in Fort Lauderdale shortly after 6am.
USA Today was among the many news outfits that covered the story on February 2. It published the story at 9.29 that morning - three-and-a-half hours after it happened.
USA Today is fighting back, saying the order violates the First Amendment.
'A government demand for records that would identify specific individuals who read specific expressive materials, like the Subpoena at issue here, invades the First Amendment rights of both publisher and reader, and must be quashed accordingly,' lawyers for Gannett, the company that owns USA Today, said.
They added said the subpoena's vague reference to 'a federal criminal investigation' cannot 'possibly justify such an abridgment of free speech.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
or if they ask for a complete facebook history, and that of all friends, no problem
They probably already have info from all the other news orgs that published the story or they would have objected as well
The FBI is now a criminal organization.
I’m old enough to remember when law authorities wanted to get your library book check-out records. I think most, if not all, libraries said “No way.”
My money says the FBI was going there to PLANT EVIDENCE on an Innocent Person and he got the drop on them. I can think of no other plausible reason for wanting this info.
Feral Bootlickers of Inquisition, America’s GeStaszi
Above the law and beyond reproach.
Has been a criminal organization since the 1960's...
The headline is like something from the Babylon Bee. Insane.
Don’t trust anyone who gets a Federal government paycheck whose desk is within 15 miles of the Lincoln Memorial.
Ya , Obama’s FBI
Clicking on a story between two times somehow makes you a suspect in a crime? I can’t wait to find out the reasoning here.
My guess is people in the criminal world are getting ever more sophisticated and anyone who somehow did something knowingly illegal probably used a VPN.
Reading about the original incident leaves a lot of questions. Why would this guy, with no criminal record, go postal before he even knows what’s going on?
And it’s the British press. American press has no interest in corruption.
The FBI can go to hell. I doubt I read the article, since I do not visit USA Today, but sometimes I might see something on FR and click on the link. Should anyone that visits a media site be tracked down by the FBI? This is a slippery slope. What’s next after this? A regular download of IP addresses, then a live feed of IP addresses so they know what you are looking at real time. (Although I think the NSA already does that, and the NSA has to go to hell too. You hear that your MF’ers at the NSA?) The time is now to stop the progress in privacy violation and general freedoms and liberties. Stop it. Reverse it. Take it way back to the 1790’s.
LOL..I actually looked to see if it was the bee....
The FBI can get bent but.., why do they want it?
What other info do they have that reading that article would play into?!
Do criminals read USA Today?
America is going down...
... as the anti-American/anti-God left has sought for so long.
The FBI, the State Department and the CIA are completely out-of-control.
what an odd story.
Sounds like the perfect subject for a Tucker Carlson monologue.
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