Pa. seizes paper's computer hard disks

[dogday]

The Attorney General's Office says they may show evidence of a felony: unauthorized use of a restricted Web site.

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.

The dispute pits the government's desire to solve an alleged felony - computer hacking - against the news media's fear that taking the computers circumvents the First Amendment and the state Shield Law.

The state Supreme Court declined last week to take the case, allowing agents to begin analyzing the data.

"This is horrifying, an editor's worst nightmare," said Lucy Dalglish, executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press in Washington. "For the government to actually physically have those hard drives from a newsroom is amazing. I'm just flabbergasted to hear of this."


http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/14084455.htm

Haven't you heard? There is no Freedom of The Press

[neuvocat]

1. Wait, who hates us for our freedoms again?

[havocmom]

2. Hook up Franklin's corpse to a turbine and power the whole state

from all the spinning in his grave

[Greyhound]

3. "A quaint idea that's long past relevance" n/t

[lpbk2713]

4. Scary as hell.

Law enforcement is using the law to cover their own asses. They don't want revealed what LEO talk about in their own private message board.

[dogday]

5. The day is coming....

When the press will either print what the government demands or will not print at all.....