ICE Is Trying To Force BuzzFeed News To Divulge Its Sources

[Wicked Blue]

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hamedaleaziz/ice-subpoena-buzzfeed-immigration-sources

Hamed Aleaziz
BuzzFeed News Reporter
December 4, 2020, at 8:29 p.m. ET

Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigators issued a subpoena this week demanding BuzzFeed News identify its sources — an extraordinary attempt by the government to interfere with a news outlet acting under the protections of the First Amendment, and a move that the agency’s former chief lambasted as “embarrassing.”

The effort to pressure BuzzFeed News into revealing sources comes after relentless efforts by President Donald Trump’s administration to undermine the free press. The outgoing president has for years lied about news outlets that publish true but critical stories about him and his administration, calling them “fake news,” which has opened reporters up to threats and violence.

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The subpoena appears to be an escalation of the Trump administration’s efforts to track down the identities of people who provide information to news outlets. It comes just months after the Washington Post reported that DHS investigators had created “intelligence reports” about media members who had reported on leaked documents.

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The subpoena, issued on Dec. 1 by an agent with the ICE Office of Professional Responsibility, concerns emails sent to ICE attorneys on a fast-track deportation program and plans to fine certain undocumented immigrants. It demands that BuzzFeed News “provide all documentation including, but not limited to: (1) date of receipt, (2) method of receipt, (3) source of document, and (4) contact information for the source of the document.”

[Dawson Leery]

1. Abolish ICE/DHS and return things to the way they were 20 years ago.

And F*** Bush/Cheney/Lieberman for forcing DHS onto us.

[Wicked Blue]

3. Amen! nt

[Chicago1980]

2. If anything needs defunding, it's this organization.

[Volaris]

4. Just ignore it for 60 days; run out the clock.

If asked, claim this is the example set by the administration that asked for the damn thing.