Obama DOJ fought to keep
search of Rosen emails secret
Breitbart – Breitbart News –
5/24/2013
Late on Friday, the New
Yorker’s Ryan Lizza reported
that the Obama administration did not merely greenlight a search warrant on Fox
News reporter James Rosen’s email account – it “fought” to prevent Rosen from
learning about it.
Ronald C. Machen, Jr., asked
a judge to prevent Rosen from learning about the search and seizure of his
emails. Machen wrote that emails “are commonly used by subjects or targets of
the criminal investigation at issue, and the e-mail evidence derived from those
compelled disclosures frequently forms the core of the Government’s evidence
supporting criminal charges.”
Not only did Machen want to
ensure that the news of the search didn’t get out via the government; he asked
that Google be ordered not to let Rosen know about the email seizures. Machen
also wanted the ability to search his emails from time to time.
The search warrant itself
was wildly overbroad.
Two judges refused Machen.
Finally, the chief judge in the Federal
District Court for the District of Columbia gave Machen what he
wanted.
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