Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department has pledged to stop secretly subpoenaing news organizations – for the most part. Fox News reports that the Justice Department is changing its policy to notify news agencies of its desire to obtain records in leak investigations. The revision will allow news organizations to challenge search warrants or subpoenas in…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The revelation last week that the Justice Department was spying on a Fox News reporter provoked a response of shock and outrage from the network. Turns out, the news shouldn’t have been all that surprising. The Washington Post reports that federal prosecutors alerted Rosen by email and sent a certified letter to Fox’s…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com City officials in a small Indiana town were served grand jury subpoenas as part of an investigation involving loans and grants since 2007, FOX 19 reports. The mayor, city council president and treasurer were served in what a city councilman described as illegal bid-awarding deals. FOX 19 wrote that state police and…
