Maryland state police and federal agents used a search warrant in an unrelated criminal investigation to seize the private reporting files of an award-winning former investigative journalist for The Washington Times who had exposed problems in the Homeland Security Department's Federal Air Marshal Service.
Reporter Audrey Hudson said the investigators, who included an agent for Homeland's Coast Guard service, took her private notes and government documents that she had obtained under the Freedom of Information Act during a predawn raid of her family home on Aug. 6.
Update: The Coast Guard sent this statement:
"In the course of a joint Federal & Maryland State Police investigation, a lawful search warrant was served on August 6, 2013 in Shadyside, MD. The Coast Guard Investigative Service (CGIS) was asked to participate since the search involved a Coast Guard employee. During the course of the search, the CGIS agent discovered government documents labeled FOUO - For Official Use Only (FOUO) and LES - Law Enforcement Sensitive. The files that contained these documents were cataloged on the search warrant inventory and taken from the premises. The documents were reviewed with the source agency and determined to be obtained properly through the Freedom of Information Act. The CG employee was notified that the documents were cleared and the CG employee picked them up after signing for the documents."
Armed agents seize records of reporter, Washington Times prepares legal action - Washington Times
So, essentially, this whole Constitution thing, yeah, that no longer applies...
If that is true and I understand it correctly the persons involved in the seizure should be punished. Should present law not allow that, the law must be changed.
So they got a warrant to raid her house at 5am and they happen to find journalistic research that is critical of DHS?
Yeah, that's not sketchy.
Conservative Reporter Says Feds Took Her Files While Searching Her Home for Guns - Elspeth Reeve - The Atlantic Wire
So far, it's a he said/she said. Until some damning evidence surfaces, there's not much to see here.
Heck, if the President does it, that means it cannot be illegal....
So what you're saying is that basically everything is up for grabs and the government should have no limit to its authority. Go it! :thumbs:
What I read into it is trashing the memory of those who suffered under the actual Gestapo for the sake of mindless partisan point-scoring.
What I read into it is trashing the memory of those who suffered under the actual Gestapo for the sake of mindless partisan point-scoring.
Is that what you read into the it? That seems odd.
No, DHS confirmed they took what they took. HE and SHE both said the same thing. But of course there's nothing to see here, people just love their Big Brother...:roll:
Armed agents seize records of reporter, Washington Times prepares legal action - Washington Times
So, essentially, this whole Constitution thing, yeah, that no longer applies...
It was on the news, it seems the search warrant was to search the premises for an unregistered firearm, her husbands not hers. What documents have to do with a firearm is beyond me. She wasn't even mentioned in the search warrant. It does seem government has gotten so big it can do whatever it wants without fear doesn't it?
Yes it does, and it seems there are more than enough "Useful Idiots" that will rationalize anything so long as it's their Party doing it... Kinda sad really...
They confiscated her guns too, doubt that they'll make a stop back at the house to give those back...
I also found the fact that the "potato gun" (i.e suppressed firearm) was actually a potato gun (i.e. contraption that shoots potato) to be another clear indicator of this government's incompetence.
Heck, if the President does it, that means it cannot be illegal....
"Should present law not allow that, the law must be changed"
How odd?
what you said here is that if the law doesn't allow for it than you must change the law to allow for it. When does that end? It won't. Nature of the Beast.
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