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Federal agents' pre-dawn raid on reporter's home raises questions
FOX News ^ | October 28, 2013 | Todd Starnes

Posted on 10/28/2013 8:52:02 AM PDT by BulletBobCo

Audrey Hudson’s husband had just left for work on August 6 when suddenly, her dog began barking. The nationally-known journalist walked over to the curtains and peeked outside to discover her Chesapeake Bay home was surrounded by law enforcement officers wearing full body armor.

The phone rang. It was her husband.

“I’m in the driveway,” he said. “The police are here. Open the door.”

And so began Hudson’s nightmare – held captive by armed agents of the U.S. Coast Guard, Maryland State Police and the Department of Homeland Security as they staged a pre-dawn raid in search of unregistered firearms and a “potato gun.”

“I think they found a great way to get into my house and get a hold of my confidential notes and go through every other file in my office." But instead of taking the potato gun, agents seized unrelated government documents and notes from the former Washington Times journalist.

Agents took Hudson’s records during a search for guns and related items owned by her husband, a civilian Coast Guard employee. They also confiscated her legally registered firearms, according to court documents obtained by The Associated Press.

The armed agents held Hudson and her husband in the kitchen as they searched their home. At some point, one of the agents asked if she was the same person who had written a series of stories critical of the Federal Air Marshal program in the mid-2000s.

Hudson did indeed author those stories for The Washington Times.

“Those stories were embarrassing to the agency,” she told me.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; policestate; thugs; tyranny
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To: Travis McGee

Thank-you.


61 posted on 10/28/2013 12:24:46 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (The Second Amendment makes all the other amendments possible)
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To: onedoug
The Revolutionary generation did not have peaceful means to assert their liberty rights against George III.

We do. It's in Article V of our constitution. If it isn't utilized, it is entirely our fault.

62 posted on 10/28/2013 1:09:21 PM PDT by Jacquerie (Obamacare forces slaves to buy their chains.)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

That’s very sad to hear — I didn’t realize they had gone so far over to the darkside too.


63 posted on 10/28/2013 1:18:16 PM PDT by Borax Queen
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To: ryan71

You don’t think they monitor this site along with FB and others? My daughter is always telling me the black helicopters are gonna get me. I don’t think she’s kidding.


64 posted on 10/28/2013 4:30:15 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: kidd
Let’s see how the MSM responds to this. Frankly, I expect them to remain silent...which sort of scares that crap out of me.

Hate to inform you but the MSM works for Hitler and the Gestapo.

65 posted on 10/28/2013 5:13:37 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: BulletBobCo

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

If their warrant didn’t particularly describe the paperwork that they seized from her, than they violated the warrant and committed a theft. They could have gone and drafted another one to get that stuff, after articulating to a judge why they wanted it.

Those things are pretty specific for a reason. It prohibits the police from going on fishing expeditions, as it appears in this case.

But, at the end of the day, absolutely nothing will happen. Have to protect the state at all costs.


66 posted on 10/28/2013 8:19:52 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: Travis McGee
The militarized lockdown of Watertown, Mass., during which heavily armed officers went door to door without search warrants terrorizing families at gunpoint and ransacking homes, led Ron Paul to observe that the manhunt was more frightening than the attack itself, saying it resembled “scenes from a military coup in a far off banana republic.”

When that happened there were a lot of people here on FR defending the police's actions. Even though all the gestapo tactics did not actually catch the guy (it was a phoned in tip from outside the search area). It was pretty revolting. "Yeah but they were scarey and KILLed some people so it is ok if the cops round up half the town and point guns at their heads."
67 posted on 10/29/2013 5:41:14 AM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: Stentor
Scouring the world for psychopaths people of similar mindset?

There, better?

68 posted on 10/29/2013 11:02:52 AM PDT by ExSoldier (Stand up and be counted... OR LINE UP AND BE NUMBERED...)
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To: ExSoldier
There, better?

If it makes you sleep better.

69 posted on 10/29/2013 11:37:32 AM PDT by Stentor
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To: Stentor
I guess. I have been losing a lot of sleep lately. Sorry to correct your stuff. I probably wouldn't like it either.
70 posted on 10/29/2013 12:32:38 PM PDT by ExSoldier (Stand up and be counted... OR LINE UP AND BE NUMBERED...)
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To: ExSoldier

I didn’t take it badly. I saw your point.


71 posted on 10/29/2013 3:04:38 PM PDT by Stentor
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To: Travis McGee
It's not a felony (or two) if the police do it to everyone, right? [/sarc]

(I love how the pic shows the 10-year imprisonment form of the second, just on its face.)

72 posted on 10/29/2013 10:28:01 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: BulletBobCo

Those PVC potato guns are supposed to be a LOT of FUN! Don’t they use lighter fluid as a propellant?


73 posted on 10/30/2013 5:11:00 AM PDT by 2harddrive
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