Posted on 06/04/2021 7:01:11 PM PDT by Auntie Mame
The article was about a child porn raid that killed two of its agents - the suspect committed suicide afterwards
The raid was at 6am and USA Today published at 9.30am
The subpoena asks for the IP addresses and phone numbers of everyone who clicked on the story between 8.03pm and 8.38pm that night
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Everyone who actually read USA Today? That’s like 7 people.
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That could be thousands of people who happened to click that story on. They didn’t know this might earn them a ‘visit’ from the ‘F-Troop’.
They must know something to ask for that specific time period.
Holy crap! FU FBI.
The Just us Department has policies?
I don’t get it.
Can’t believe on the side of USA Today this time.
Lock them up!
Bizarre.
Rats. Thanks. I searched for “FBI” and got no results, which I thought was strange. Oh well.
It seems that one can get a visit from the FBI by just clicking/reading an article on the internet. Chilling.
I get suggestions to read things all the time or when I am looking at a story, there may be a blurb to another story that looks interesting so I click on it.
What in the world???!!! I wonder how many people might have been curious or accidentally clicked on that story and are not going to get a visit.
It seems odd that they are demanding the records from such a specific 30 minutes in the evening…almost 12 hours after the original article was published.
Any aspiring thriller fiction writers out there? How do you construct a plot where this makes sense? Did the suspect get tipped off that the G men were coming and they think the ip addresses might lead them to the tipster?
A general warrant makes no sense, except for a fishing expedition. If they have a suspect identified, they could easily target the warrant at his Internet habits specifically.
My understanding is that we don’t post from USA today here, but suppose somebody here at FR posted that story. Everyone who clicked on it is getting scrutinized by the FBI? That has a terrible chilling effect on free speech when they make people afraid to go to legitimate news sites.
FR tends to post things very early as they happen. What if people here were investigated for clicking on new stories about January 6 during a certain time frame? The FBI has lost all respect for constitutional protections and their true meaning.
Just doesn’t seem any different than asking for a search warrant to search every house in a four block area to see what you find.
Perp is David Lee Huber. I wonder if he’s any relation to John W. Huber, ex-U.S. Attorney.
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