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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