Posted on 11/21/2013 10:16:46 AM PST by jazusamo
Weeks after Maryland State Police and federal agents seized reporting files from a former Washington Times journalist’s home, a Homeland Security agent checked the materials out of the police evidence room for an hour, according to logs that shine new light on a case that has raised First Amendment concerns.
The custody logs don’t state why the reporting materials were removed from evidence Sept. 3, about a month after they were seized from reporter Audrey Hudson’s home during a search in an unrelated investigation of her husband.
But they do show that the Homeland Security agent checked out files and notes that morning that identified confidential sources that Ms. Hudson had interviewed during a series of award-winning articles published in The Times about problems in the Homeland Security Department's Federal Air Marshal Service.
Homeland Security officials have acknowledged that their agents seized Ms. Hudson’s files during the execution of a search warrant in early August obtained by Maryland State Police in an unrelated investigation of guns owned by her husband. Her husband has not been charged with any wrongdoing in the case.
Homeland Security officials also have acknowledged that they briefly reviewed the materials to determine whether they contained any sensitive information, even though the search warrant did not authorize seizure of the documents.
The officials have not explained, however, why federal agents attended a raid that involved state laws or why police kept reporting materials for more than a month that were not covered by the judge’s order.
First Amendment advocates and professional journalists said the revelations from the evidence custody logs raise serious concerns that constitutional protections were violated.
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Ministerium für Staatssicherheit actions.
The fourth estate should be up in arms over this outrage yet the silence is deafening.
Are you high or crazy? What good would it do?
Yep. They got names for sure of those sources who had complaints. We are headed down one scary road these days.
Watch for some accidental deaths at the Washington Times now....
People like you have been telling us for years to vote for the lesser of two evils because of some short-term "emergency". And it has only gotten us further down the path of socialism and tyrrany. Stop blaming people with integrity for your failure to hold the GOP's feet to the fire by your lack of integrity.
I'll take JQ Adams advice over yours. Anytime.
There is a fundamental confusion here.
There are the absolute agents of good and evil: God with his angels, and Satan (with his demons).
Then there are agents which have a choice of which sphere of the absolute agents to participate in: Humans.
A dual pronged effort is needed to work towards victory. No perfect human will ever be voted for. That’s ruled out by definition in this mortal coil. However one can choose the best of the available choices of human, and then apply spiritual effort (exhortation, prayer) to best capitalize upon that human’s situation.
It’s forgetting the essential spiritual aspect of this battle which has produced the eternal debates here on this matter, debates that never go anywhere.
No I’m not forgetting the spiritual aspect, and I’m not saying a candidate needs to be perfect. When you have a 90% evil candidate (Obama) and a 75% evil candidate (Romney) voting for the lesser evil only moves us farther to the left and encourages the establishment to run more mostly-evil candidates. Where if everyone had voted their conscience startin 20 years ago, the GOP would have gotten the message long ago and moved to the right.
Voting for the lesser of two evils is exactly what evil wants.
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