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--- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 15:48:23 -0500 From: "Paul Levy" <PLEVY@citizen.org> To: <declan@well.com> Subject: Re: [IP] AP Protests Gov't Seizure of Package Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline maybe when AP reporters threaten the government's ability to propagandize the public for its position on issues relating to terrorism, they are enemy combatants and lose the protection of the constitution Paul Alan Levy Public Citizen Litigation Group 1600 - 20th Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20009 (202) 588-1000 http://www.citizen.org/litigation/litigation.html >>> Dave Farber <dave@farber.net> 03/13/03 03:29PM >>> ------ Forwarded Message From: Richard Forno <rforno@infowarrior.org> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 14:17:41 -0500 To: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net> Subject: AP Protests Gov't Seizure of Package AP Protests Gov't Seizure of Package The Associated Press Thursday, March 13, 2003; 9:44 AM Government agencies opened a package mailed between two Associated Press reporters last September and seized a copy of an eight-year-old unclassified FBI lab report without obtaining a warrant or notifying the news agency. The Customs Service intercepted a package sent via Federal Express from the Associated Press bureau in Manila to the AP office in Washington, and turned the contents over to the FBI. FBI spokesman Doug Garrison said the document contained sensitive information that should not be made public. However, an AP executive said the package contained an unclassified 1995 FBI report that had been discussed in open court in two legal cases. "The government had no legal right to seize the package," said David Tomlin, assistant to the AP president. The package was one of several communications between Jim Gomez in Manila and John Solomon in Washington, AP reporters who were working on terrorism investigative stories. It was the second time that Solomon's reporting was the subject of a government seizure. In May 2001 the Justice Department subpoenaed his home phone records concerning stories he wrote about an investigation of then-Sen. Robert Torricelli. < snip > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19862-2003Mar13.html ------ End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------