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FBI demands USA Today hand over names of EVERYONE who read story about two FBI agents killed during Florida child porn raid but newspaper REFUSES First Amendment 'violation'
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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 ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 202102; 20210202; associatedpress; civilrights; danielalfin; davidhuber; fbi; fbiagents; fib; firstamendment; fortlauderdale; ftlauderdale; gestapo; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; schwartzenberger; thegulag; usatoday
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Maybe it is to check someone’s alibi.


41 posted on 06/04/2021 4:15:53 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: eyeamok

I am not familiar with this story. I will need to read more.


42 posted on 06/04/2021 4:15:57 PM PDT by wgmalabama (Tag line for rent)
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I hope the FBI catches them all. Send in that rank and file.


43 posted on 06/04/2021 4:16:02 PM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: SuperLuminal

more like the 1930’s


44 posted on 06/04/2021 4:16:42 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: Gay State Conservative
Don’t trust anyone who gets a Federal government paycheck whose desk is within 15 miles of the Lincoln Memorial.

You'd best make that a much larger radius.

I live about 40 miles south and you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a government office or employee. Also, there are several FIB and other so-called law enforcement agencies down here, to include the ever famous academy. I don't trust a single one of them anymore. Actually, it has been decades since I trusted any of them.

45 posted on 06/04/2021 4:16:46 PM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: Reno89519

Sounds like a Writ of Assistance to me. Fourth Amendment violation.


46 posted on 06/04/2021 4:20:52 PM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: algore

Two FBI agents got killed in February here in FL and it didn’t make much of a splash in the news?

That is pretty strange.


47 posted on 06/04/2021 4:21:26 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: escapefromboston

I tried finding the article at issue.


48 posted on 06/04/2021 4:22:40 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (All worry about monsters that'll eat our face, but it's our job to ask WHY it wants to eat our face.)
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To: Rebelbase
The headline is like something from the Babylon Bee. Insane.

That's what I thought...initially I assumed the punch line to be that USA Today was supporting the First Amendment.

49 posted on 06/04/2021 4:25:02 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: ctdonath2

can’t find the fr article, but it was allover the MSM


50 posted on 06/04/2021 4:26:20 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: Freedom56v2
What am I missing here?
Why would they want the readers of a news story?
What could they possibly do with that information?

This is my take: The subject is quite heinous so they are using it to set a legal precedent. Once they get their nose in the tent they will use this legal decision to just start demanding the viewership/readership of anything they do not like and to start oppressing conservatives by demanding the data from conservative news organizations to start jailing them.

51 posted on 06/04/2021 4:27:30 PM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Elvis Presley - Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce | From the movie Girl Happy (1965) | June 2, 2013 | DanJL76
Elvis Presley - Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce | From the movie Girl Happy (1965) | June 2, 2013 | DanJL76



52 posted on 06/04/2021 4:28:37 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

” 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?”

Same here. And FR is often VERY early in when things happen. So if we read about the DC “velvet rope riot” in the first few minutes, does that make you a suspect?
Where does this road end?
If the FBI has a suspect, they could easily get a warrant for THAT person. America does not issue general fishing expedition warrants.

At least old America didn’t.


53 posted on 06/04/2021 4:29:12 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: algore

FBI = FIB


54 posted on 06/04/2021 4:31:03 PM PDT by antidemoncrat (somRead more at: https://economicti)
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To: algore

I wish there was a rule of style for the god damned hyphenated numbers. You don’t need the hyphens. He was a 55 year old man not a 55-year-old man. A three year old child is sometimes called a three-year-old. Three and a half hours does not need to get all hyphenated either. Out of control doesn’t get hyphenated.


55 posted on 06/04/2021 4:32:15 PM PDT by webheart (I already had COVID disease and 2 vaccine shots Can I take the mask off now?)
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To: OldMissileer

You have a wonderful sneaky mind.


56 posted on 06/04/2021 4:33:46 PM PDT by firebrand ( )
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To: Reno89519

“Yes, I agree that they need a warrant that is legal and defendable”

A legal and defendable warrant is not for everyone who read a news story during a time frame. That would be like a warrant to search every house within a four square block area.


57 posted on 06/04/2021 4:38:22 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: algore

These agents live in a bubble. They hate regular citizens. Those on the left and the right should be able to see that they’re domestic terrorists along with the other 3 letter criminal agencies like DEA.

I can’t see why anyone would want to help them. It’s not just the leadership. Every agent is indoctrinated into a Gestapo like cult

Look up Milgrim experiment and you can see how regular people are willing to administer a death shock on command.


58 posted on 06/04/2021 4:39:09 PM PDT by grumpygresh (Civil disobedience by jury nullification. )
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To: webheart

You are wrong about everything except:

Three and a half hours does not need to get all hyphenated


59 posted on 06/04/2021 4:41:03 PM PDT by firebrand ( )
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To: piasa

If it is only to check someone’s alibi, the warrant could easily name the targeted individual. And anyway, was some child porn guy’s alibi that he was busy ready about the FBI getting shot at the front door of a place they were raiding?

This is a fishing expedition.

Think of the stories we read here every hour. Does that implicate us?


60 posted on 06/04/2021 4:41:37 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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