[Nettime-bold] Fw: FBI raids Seattle journalist collective, delivers gag order

["Ben" <justbenjamin@hotmail.com>]

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----- Original Message -----
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
To: <politech@politechbot.com>
Cc: <paulshukovsky@seattle-pi.com>; <editorial@seattle.indymedia.org>;
<news@seattle.indymedia.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 9:12 PM
Subject: FC: FBI raids Seattle journalist collective, delivers gag order


> This was reportedly posted on then removed from vermont.indymedia.org:
> >"There is a report of FBI Officers currently located within the Seattle
> >IMC demanding the location of the person who's name is the registered
name
> >of indymedia.org. Apparently, they have an arrest warrant for Jonathan
Jay
> >because of a supposed threat against President Bush on the Montreal IMC
> >site. They are making threats that the IMC is not supposed to send out
> >*any* emails regarding this issue, according to the warrant. However,
> >this, according to the IMC lawyer, is Prior Restraint, which is
> >unconstitutional. The closest story mentioning Bush on the Montreal site
> >is the following: story mentioning bush Please look to
> >seattle.indymedia.org as well as other sites for updates on this
situation."
>
> The name "Jonathan Jay" does indeed appear in the "whois" database:
> http://www.networksolutions.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois?STRING=indymedia.org
>
> But each Independent Media Center is a collective that includes hundreds
of
> loosely-affiliated journalists and activists. Holding the whois registrant
> responsible for what appears on the site -- if that is what happened --
> makes little sense. He may have simply donated the domain name years ago,
> or may be no longer involved in the publication of the site.
>
> Also, the gag order -- the sketchy little we know of it -- seems
remarkably
> broad. Why shouldn't a news organization be able to report on a raid of
its
> office?
>
> Background:
> http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,38286,00.html
> http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=01/04/24/1857245
>
> -Declan
>
> *********
>
> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 12:07:54 -0700
> From: Warren Cowley <wdcowley@earthlink.net>
> To: declan@well.com
> Subject: Indymedia raided by the FBI and gag order placed on discussion of
> the issue
>
> Declan,
> Please sound the alarm. The FBI has chosen another target. They raided the
> Indymedia center on sat  04/21/01.
> In the process they have placed a gag order on indymedia.
> the story is here :
> http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/0424-04.htm
> and
> here:
> http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=36185&group=webcast
>
> Thanks
> A very concerned citizen
>
> *********
>
> http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/local/19980_security24.shtml
>
>     FBI raids media center
>     Stolen security plan for Quebec meeting was put on Internet here
>
>     Tuesday, April 24, 2001
>
>     By PAUL SHUKOVSKY
>     SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
>
>     Security plans intended to protect Western leaders attending a trade
>     summit in Quebec City were stolen from a car there over the weekend
>     and posted, hours later, on a Seattle-based Web site, authorities said
>     yesterday.
>
>     On Saturday night, FBI agents raided the offices of the Independent
>     Media Center in downtown Seattle, seizing computer-log records,
>     according to federal sources.
>
>     No arrests have been made.
>
>     Center spokeswoman Sherry Herndon said she and other staff have been
>     told "not to talk about" the incident under threat of being held in
>     contempt of court.
>
>     She referred inquiries to attorney Bob Goodman of the Center for
>     Constitutional Rights in New York City, who also declined comment.
>
>     He said the court order that was served on the IMC "contains a fairly
>     broad gag order; therefore, we cannot talk."
>
>     ...
>
>     No mention of the FBI raid could be found yesterday on the IMC Web
>     site. But the organization's home page carried a boldface note
>     stating, "Everything is fine at the Seattle IMC. We will keep you
>     posted on any further developments."
>
>     ...
>
> *********
>
>
>
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