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The sick joke is the fascistic January 6 Committee. More and more people are tired of it and see it for what it is.
A freelance photojournalist is suing the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol, saying the panel issued “an invasive and sweeping subpoena” of her phone records that violates the First Amendment.
Amy Harris, a photographer who has worked with outlets including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and Time magazine, filed a lawsuit on Wednesday afternoon in federal court in Washington.
Her 23-page suit (pdf) seeks to block a subpoena issued by the Jan. 6 panel, arguing that demanding her phone records violates her right not to reveal confidential sources. The subpoena would compel her phone carrier, Verizon, to hand over her phone records dated from Nov. 1, 2020 through Jan. 31, 2021.
Harris had documented the Proud Boys and its leader, Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, in the days before the Jan. 6 breach and on the day itself.
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It also states that the subpoena is “overly broad with respect to time frame” and “contains no limitations seeking to preserve applicable privileges or prevent violations of Harris’s constitutional rights.”
“Demanding journalists’ telephone records that reveal confidential sources from third parties is tantamount to demanding the records from the journalists themselves,” Harris’s suit argues. “A journalist’s promise to maintain confidentiality would be meaningless if a source’s identity could be discovered” through such methods.
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www.theepochtimes.com
A freelance photojournalist is suing the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol, saying the panel issued “an invasive and sweeping subpoena” of her phone records that violates the First Amendment.
Amy Harris, a photographer who has worked with outlets including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and Time magazine, filed a lawsuit on Wednesday afternoon in federal court in Washington.
Her 23-page suit (pdf) seeks to block a subpoena issued by the Jan. 6 panel, arguing that demanding her phone records violates her right not to reveal confidential sources. The subpoena would compel her phone carrier, Verizon, to hand over her phone records dated from Nov. 1, 2020 through Jan. 31, 2021.
Harris had documented the Proud Boys and its leader, Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, in the days before the Jan. 6 breach and on the day itself.
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It also states that the subpoena is “overly broad with respect to time frame” and “contains no limitations seeking to preserve applicable privileges or prevent violations of Harris’s constitutional rights.”
“Demanding journalists’ telephone records that reveal confidential sources from third parties is tantamount to demanding the records from the journalists themselves,” Harris’s suit argues. “A journalist’s promise to maintain confidentiality would be meaningless if a source’s identity could be discovered” through such methods.
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Photographer Sues House Jan. 6 Committee Over ‘Invasive’ Subpoena
www.theepochtimes.com
