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Federal prosecutors subpoena university records on anti-war activists
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 14:57:25 -0400
-----Original Message----- From: Steve Bellovin <smb () research att com> Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 13:48:50 To:dave () farber net Subject: Federal prosecutors subpoena university records on anti-war activists http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Activist-Investigation.html Feds Win Right to War Protesters' Records By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- In what may be the first subpoena of its kind since the Communist-hunting days of the 1950s, a federal judge has ordered a university to turn over records about a gathering of anti-war activists. In addition to the subpoena of Drake University, subpoenas were served this past week on four of the activists who attended a Nov. 15 forum at the school, ordering them to appear before a grand jury Tuesday, the protesters said. Advertisement Federal prosecutors refuse to comment on the subpoenas, served by a local sheriff's deputy who works on the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force. In addition to records about who attended the forum, the subpoena orders the university to divulge all records relating to the local chapter of the National Lawyer's Guild, a New York-based legal activist organization that sponsored the forum. ..... --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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