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 ...
Members of the FBI are the ringleaders of child porn. With the highest officials at the top of the chain. I’m looking at you Comey and Wrey. /double spit.
Whoever was involved at USA Today is fish đ food.
And 1st amendment gives right to article, no one is objecting, maybe a 3rd party to review the records to share specifically what the FBI is looking for, maybe to identify the dead guy's partners?
I was going to click the link to read the rest of the story but I donât want get arrested.
what about people who bought a copy of the “paper” or subscribe to it??
This makes absolutely NO sense.
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We want a description of EVERYONE who bought a copy of that newspaper, Pops or something might happen to your little new stand here, knowwhatImean?
People like you are helping push the rest of us down a slippery slope into an Orwellian Nightmare.
please don’t dream of a boot repeatedly stomping your head
FYI, the Feds have been known to claim child pr0n as a reason when the actual investigation has nothing whatsoever to do with it and they just claim it as part of a fishing expedition or to smear their target. Maybe want to rethink your stance - they should have to get a warrant and clearly state what exactly it is they are looking for and why, which is not what they are doing here.
From Hoover on, but some people are slow to learn.
They don’t work for America, that’s for sure.
The Trump justice department was making headway. Who tipped the guy? Whatâs the rest of the story?
I have vague recollection of this story when it broke. That means a version was posted here, but probably not the USA Today version because itâs a Gannet product.
Just now? Been that way since Hoover was LBJ’s personal snoop.
Govt agencies always eventually move into illegal actions if they are allowed.
Yes, I agree that they need a warrant that is legal and defendable. With that, give them the requested information.
Unbelievable!
I totally missed this story, Maybe it’s just as well.
Strange things going on in the FBI these days.
“now” a criminal organization?? Its been a criminal organization for a while, never mind corrupt and incompetent.
How does reading USA Today imply that you’re involved in child porn?
The FBI smells bad.
PING!
What am I missing here?
Why would they want the readers of a news story?
What could they possibly do with that information?
Well, OBVIOUSLY anyone who clicked is either interested in child pornography or in murdering FBI agents, or both!
Perhaps this is yet another reason to not sign up for any on-line "news" service...
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