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This is standard operating procedure and happens all the time, especially at the local level. 99.9% the subpoenas fall through, but it's a low-risk, high-reward
by dvt 6y ago
This is standard operating procedure and happens all the time, especially at the local level. 99.9% the subpoenas fall through, but it's a low-risk, high-reward legal strategy.
- yjftsjthsd-h 6y agoThen that is a bug that needs to be fixed.
- dvt 6y agoNot really, because there might be some cases where compelling a journalist to reveal their sources is the right thing to do. Coming up with examples is trivial: child abuse, war crimes, etc. Of course, this should be extremely rare (which it already is). The freedom of the press, much like the freedom of speech (and religion, for that matter), is not -- Constitutionally speaking -- absolute.
- yjftsjthsd-h 6y agoNo, the bug is a government agency knowingly trying to work around legal process.
- 8note 6y agoI'm not clear how those require revealing sources? If a source reports a war crime, people should be going after the war criminal, not the person that called them out