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Editor’s Nightmare: State Seizes Newspaper’s Harddrives

2006-03-16 at 7:03 am · Filed under NewsWax

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.

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rastus said,
It’s about damned time. The newspaper’s arguments can be reduced to one simple claim: that newspapers are above the law. Notwithstanding that we have treated them as such for quite some time now, the claim is absurd on its face, and the fact that it has finally been formally rejected by a court of law is quite encouraging.

Next thing is to indict the New York Times for its illegal exposure of the NSA’s terrorist wiretapping program.

March 18, 2006 at 10:52 am

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