Magistrate Judge Porter is doing a lot of walking back of his original warrant issue to enable the FBI seizure of WaPo reporter Hannah Natanson's devices from her home, admitting that he himself didn't take into consideration, or even was aware of the 1980 Privacy Protection Act, though in turn chiding the DOJ for failure to include the Act as an "adverse authority" addendum to the warrant application.
IOW, the judge screwed up, but blames DOJ...whatever, but at least he has prevented - we assume - wholesale rummaging through Natanson's electronic files for info wholly unrelated to a specific "leak" investigation.
Magistrate Judge Porter is doing a lot of walking back of his original warrant issue to enable the FBI seizure of WaPo reporter Hannah Natanson's devices from her home, admitting that he himself didn't take into consideration, or even was aware of the 1980 Privacy Protection Act, though in turn chiding the DOJ for failure to include the Act as an "adverse authority" addendum to the warrant application.
IOW, the judge screwed up, but blames DOJ...whatever, but at least he has prevented - we assume - wholesale rummaging through Natanson's electronic files for info wholly unrelated to a specific "leak" investigation.
Thank you David for the
SOTU Free Zone.
I take it Magistrate
Porter got taken over
the barbed wire by DOJ.
No judicial appointee
likes to be used, or
made a fool of. But, I
would like to think our
Judiciary, in any form,
has a working
knowledge of the
Constitution.
Have no idea why this is double spaced. This is the Galaxy 25 Ultra and I'm not impressed. Ugh.