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The Subpoenas are Coming!
Mark Rasch, 2003-09-29

Citing a provision of the Patriot Act, the FBI is sending letters to journalists telling them to secretly prepare to turn over their notes, e-mails and sources to the bureau. Should we throw out the First Amendment to nail a hacker?

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Err, when you get done running the bullhorn... 2003-09-30
Whatever
I won't claim to know the ins and outs of US law, but it's difficult to quash a subpoena that you don't know about. Assuming that the journalists in question can't tell their own lawyers, they probably can't tell anyone else's lawyers either.
And as far as the FBI using other laws if they didn't us...

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