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Saturday, March 18, 2006
"Congress shall Make no Law Abridging the Freedom of the Press" "In an unusual and little-known case, the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office has seized four computer hard drives from a Lancaster newspaper as part of a statewide grand-jury investigation into leaks to reporters. If it is not abridging the freedom of the press to seize its records and the equipment it uses to do its job, I don't know what would be. But lots of people these days -- including some Supreme Court judges -- seem to think that the Constitution can mean anything they want it to mean. The cause of the high-handed behaviour was a "leak" investigation. Some reporters had accessed a government database and claimed that the State's coroner had given them the password to enable them to do so -- which he of course denies. So how is seizing the computers going to show how the reporters got the password? The whole thing is a nonsense and can only be seen as an attempt to intimidate and punish the newspaper. (For more postings from me, see EDUCATION WATCH, GREENIE WATCH, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS WATCH, GUN WATCH, SOCIALIZED MEDICINE, AUSTRALIAN POLITICS and DISSECTING LEFTISM. My Home Page. Email me (John Ray) here.) Blogger News Network is advertiser-supported, and your visits to our advertisers help BNN to meet its expenses. Help keep us afloat! posted by JR at 6:14 AM |
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