Recall Feb. 2 story – FBI agents killed in gun battle in Broward County, Florida serving child porn search warrant
NOW . . .
Daily Mail – [UK]
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’
- 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
- The FBI Agent who issued it – J. Brooke Donahue – doesn’t say why he wants that specific information, just that it will aide an ongoing investigation
- USA Today’s owner, Gannett, is pushing back, calling the subpoena a violation of the First Amendment
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We have no idea why they want to do this … we’ll post updates here later …. FC
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UPDATE –
FBI now WITHRDAWS its request to subpoena USA Today’s records that asked to see who’d clicked on a story
Just one day later, though, the FBI emailed attorneys that they were withdrawing the subpoena because they identified a child sex exploiter ‘by other means’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9655835/FBI-WITHRDAWS-request-subpoena-USA-Today-whod-clicked-story.html
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On Monday evening, House Judiciary Republicans wrote on Twitter that an unnamed whistleblower came forward and told them that the FBI is moving agents from child sexual abuse cases to pursue investigations relating to the Jan. 6 Capitol breach.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fbi-responds-whistleblower-saying-child-abuse-cases-being-dropped-favor-jan-6
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