IP: The U.S. Department of Justice has served Declan with a subpoena

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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>Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 16:55:41 -0500
>To: politech@politechbot.com
>From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
>Subject: FC: The U.S. Department of Justice has served me with a subpoena
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>The U.S. Department of Justice served me with a subpoena about 15
>minutes ago.
>
>Two Treasury Department agents walked into the main Computers,
>Freedom, and Privacy conference hall here in Cambridge and handed me a
>one-page subponea to testify in the April criminal trial of
>_U.S. v. James Dalton Bell_. I have written about the case in a series
>of news articles.
>
>Bell is a former subscriber to the cypherpunks mailing list who has
>been charged with two counts of violating federal stalking laws while
>apparently researching information on government agents. Bell, who
>was 42 years old at the time of his arrest last year, is best known
>for his "Assassination Politics" idea that involves using digital cash
>and anonymous messages to eliminate miscreant federal officials.
>
>The subpoena says I must appear in the U.S. Courthouse in Tacoma,
>Washington on April 2: "You are commanded to appear in the United
>States District Court at the place, date, and time specified below, or
>any subsequent place, date and time set by the court, to testify in
>the above referenced case." The trial is schedled to begin April 1.
>
>It also orders me to bring with me two Wired News articles I wrote in
>the last year about Bell:
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>    Crypto-Convict Won't Recant / April 14, 2000
>    http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,35620,00.html
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>    IRS Raids Cypherpunk's House / November 11, 2000
>    http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,35620,00.html
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>Two agents, who said they were from the Treasury Department, walked up
>to me after the CFP Carnivore panel ended and I was in the front of
>the room talking with the panelists. The agents identified themselves
>as Kim McDowell and Tom Caldwell.
>
>I will discuss my options with my editors, and, I presume, our legal
>counsel. But as a general rule, I do not believe it is desirable for
>journalists to disclose information or interviews that were gathered
>or performed for news purposes. I'd welcome advice from those
>knowlegeable about the relevant laws.
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>- -Declan
>Cambridge, Mass.
>March 8, 2001
>declan@well.com
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