FBI abandons demand for info on readers of story on agent shooting

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'The subpoena is being withdrawn because intervening investigative developments have rendered it unnecessary,' an FBI spokesperson said

The FBI statement stressed that the subpoena about the February shooting was not aimed at any newsgathering effort. | GettyThe FBI has dropped an effort to force the publisher of USA Today to turn over information that could disclose who read one of the newspaper's online stories about a February shooting incident in Florida that left a suspect and two FBI agents dead, as well as three other agents wounded.

Gannett went to federal court in Washington last week to void the subpoena, arguing that it violated the First Amendment and that the FBI had ignored the Justice Department's regulations governing efforts to seek information from the news media., FBI officials had no comment on the episode, but a spokesperson said via email on Saturday that the law enforcement agency was abandoning the demand.

In a court filing Saturday afternoon, Gannett included an email from a senior Justice Department official that suggested the subpoena was aimed at identifying a suspect in a child exploitation probe, but that person had now been identified in a different way. Word of the subpoena to USA Today emerged as the Justice Department was facing intense scrutiny and criticism for its efforts to seize email and phone records as part of leak investigations. The FBI's announcement that it was abandoning the subpoena over the shooting article came on the same day DOJ announced it would no longer seek to expose journalists sources by demanding records from news outlets or their service providers.

 

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This is the kind of department Chris Wray is running and he still has a job. 🙄 No accountability for these decisions and no safeguards against FBI going rogue.

That's the reason. *wink* *wink* lol

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