>The government's own guidelines require the FBI to pursue alternative sources before subpoenaing a newspaper Or "we could always just buy this data, we reques

>The government's own guidelines require the FBI to pursue alternative sources before subpoenaing a newspaper Or "we could always just buy this data, we requested it for some other reason but the media got more pissy than we expected." The entire thing is just so strange, why was the challenge not hidden when the subpoena was?