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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