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Biden DOJ backtracks on subpoena for USA TODAY readers' IP addresses
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The Department of Justice will not seek information identifying the readers of a USA TODAY story from earlier this year, according to a Friday court filing, but only after the FBI captured the alleged criminal it was seeking through other means.
"A government demand for records that would identify specific individuals who read specific expressive materials … invades the First Amendment rights of both publisher and reader, and must be quashed accordingly," Gannett's lawyers wrote in a May 28 filing. USA TODAY Publisher Maribel Perez Wadsworth also slammed the FBI for the effort. USA TODAY Motion to Quash S... by Fox News FBI Subpoena Withdrawn USA ... by Fox NewsMore Related News