Elvis Presley - Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce | From the movie Girl Happy (1965) | June 2, 2013 | DanJL76
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 ...
Maybe it is to check someone’s alibi.
I am not familiar with this story. I will need to read more.
I hope the FBI catches them all. Send in that rank and file.
more like the 1930’s
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.
Sounds like a Writ of Assistance to me. Fourth Amendment violation.
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.
I tried finding the article at issue.
That's what I thought...initially I assumed the punch line to be that USA Today was supporting the First Amendment.
can’t find the fr article, but it was allover the MSM
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.
Elvis Presley - Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce | From the movie Girl Happy (1965) | June 2, 2013 | DanJL76
” 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.
FBI = FIB
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.
You have a wonderful sneaky mind.
“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.
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.
You are wrong about everything except:
Three and a half hours does not need to get all hyphenated
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?
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