[IP] Federal prosecutors subpoena university records on anti-war activists

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

-----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.

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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.


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		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb


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