Federal Agents seize travel bloggers computer
Dec 31, 2009, 3:50 pm
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Update from Associated Press: TSA extends response deadline for blogger
Dec 31, 2009, 4:08 pm
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Update from Associated Press: TSA extends response deadline for blogger
Dec 31, 2009, 4:14 pm
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Disgusting actions by the government.
Seizing computers from persons who are not likely to be prosecuted and convicted for any violation of federal law on their part to-date is the kind of intimidation tactics used by tinpot dictatorships and autocratic regimes around the world.
Zimbabwe is notorious for this kind of behavior and we criticize it, but here is our government now doing the same thing?
Seizing computers from persons who are not likely to be prosecuted and convicted for any violation of federal law on their part to-date is the kind of intimidation tactics used by tinpot dictatorships and autocratic regimes around the world.
Zimbabwe is notorious for this kind of behavior and we criticize it, but here is our government now doing the same thing?
Dec 31, 2009, 4:17 pm
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Dec 31, 2009, 4:58 pm
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I won't hold his loaning his laptops to the Feds against him.
It sure is easy for everybody else to be so brave hiding behind their keyboards and screens.
Dec 31, 2009, 5:05 pm
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Kudos to Elliot but I'm not going to pass judgement on Fish. He had two armed Federal "Special" Agents at his doorstep with "legal paperz" while he held his young baby and his other kids were at home.
I won't hold his loaning his laptops to the Feds against him.
It sure is easy for everybody else to be so brave hiding behind their keyboards and screens.
I won't hold his loaning his laptops to the Feds against him.
It sure is easy for everybody else to be so brave hiding behind their keyboards and screens.
Dec 31, 2009, 5:23 pm
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I was just called buy TSA's Deputy Chief Counsel for Enforcement telling me that the TSA is dropping any and all investigation of how I received the Security Directive.
The TSA had my laptop, there was no data of interest to them on the laptop, I knew that. I am not discussing where they indicated they'd be looking for that data next. If they went that next step a challenge would have ensued.
The TSA has also dropped its subpoena with Chris Elliot.
We are both free and clear as of right now.
The TSA had my laptop, there was no data of interest to them on the laptop, I knew that. I am not discussing where they indicated they'd be looking for that data next. If they went that next step a challenge would have ensued.
The TSA has also dropped its subpoena with Chris Elliot.
We are both free and clear as of right now.
Dec 31, 2009, 5:27 pm
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I was just called buy TSA's Deputy Chief Counsel for Enforcement telling me that the TSA is dropping any and all investigation of how I received the Security Directive.
The TSA had my laptop, there was no data of interest to them on the laptop, I knew that. I am not discussing where they indicated they'd be looking for that data next. If they went that next step a challenge would have ensued.
The TSA has also dropped its subpoena with Chris Elliot.
We are both free and clear as of right now.
The TSA had my laptop, there was no data of interest to them on the laptop, I knew that. I am not discussing where they indicated they'd be looking for that data next. If they went that next step a challenge would have ensued.
The TSA has also dropped its subpoena with Chris Elliot.
We are both free and clear as of right now.
Glad to hear that at least some semblance of sanity returned to somebody's mind at TSA.
Personally, I would still completely re-image that laptop.
Happy New Year!
Dec 31, 2009, 5:30 pm
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I was just called buy TSA's Deputy Chief Counsel for Enforcement telling me that the TSA is dropping any and all investigation of how I received the Security Directive.
The TSA had my laptop, there was no data of interest to them on the laptop, I knew that. I am not discussing where they indicated they'd be looking for that data next. If they went that next step a challenge would have ensued.
The TSA has also dropped its subpoena with Chris Elliot.
We are both free and clear as of right now.
The TSA had my laptop, there was no data of interest to them on the laptop, I knew that. I am not discussing where they indicated they'd be looking for that data next. If they went that next step a challenge would have ensued.
The TSA has also dropped its subpoena with Chris Elliot.
We are both free and clear as of right now.
Dec 31, 2009, 5:30 pm
#164
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I was just called buy TSA's Deputy Chief Counsel for Enforcement telling me that the TSA is dropping any and all investigation of how I received the Security Directive.
The TSA had my laptop, there was no data of interest to them on the laptop, I knew that. I am not discussing where they indicated they'd be looking for that data next. If they went that next step a challenge would have ensued.
The TSA has also dropped its subpoena with Chris Elliot.
We are both free and clear as of right now.
The TSA had my laptop, there was no data of interest to them on the laptop, I knew that. I am not discussing where they indicated they'd be looking for that data next. If they went that next step a challenge would have ensued.
The TSA has also dropped its subpoena with Chris Elliot.
We are both free and clear as of right now.
Dec 31, 2009, 5:40 pm
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