The Department of Justice (DOJ) has dropped part of its demand for IP addresses from visitors to a site used by Antifa to plot illegal activities during the inauguration. The ensuing riot resulted in over 200 felony indictments and 19 individuals pleading guilty to various charges.
Of note, organizers Luke ‘pedo-author’ Kuhn and Colin Dunn were caught on hidden camera at the infamous Comet Ping Pong Pizza restaurant in Washington DC, where they divulged plans to release butyric acid at the “Deploraball” Inauguration party, as well as “a series of clusterf*ck blockades, blockades of all the major ingress points in the city, shutting down major bridges and highway access points, as well as shutting down metro rail.” (video 1, video 2)
As previously reported, the DOJ originally demanded a wide scope of information from web hosting firm ‘DreamHost’ in relation to the website ‘disruptj20.org,’ including the IP addresses of anyone who has ever visited the site – which amounted to over 1.3 million records. DreamHost filed a reply to the court to challenge the request, stating that it was too broad, and set a dangerous precedent.
“In essence, the Search Warrant not only aims to identify the political dissidents of the current administration, but attempts to identify and understand what content each of these dissidents viewed on the website,” said DreamHost General Council Chris Ghazarian in a legal filing opposing the request.
In response, the DOJ has re-filed an amended warrant, dropping the request for the IP addresses, and stating that the government isn’t on a witch hunt for ‘political dissidents’ of the current administration.
“The Warrant – like the criminal investigation – is singularly focused on criminal activity,” the government said in response. “It will not be used for any other purpose.” The DOJ also pointed out that it had no idea there were 1.3 million IP addresses involved, stating “What the government did not know when it obtained the Warrant – what it could not have reasonably known 0 was the extent of visitor data maintained by DreamHost that extends beyond the government’s singular focus in this case of investigating the planning, organization, and participation in the January 20, 2017 riot.”
Narrower scope doesn’t mean backing down
While the original request has been updated to protect the privacy of the innocent, the DOJ isn’t backing down whatsoever – and the IP addresses of individuals suspected of crimes are still on the table.
Here’s the meat of the request:
Not like the rioting children made it very hard to find out who they are in the first place…
“Just a bunch of kids having innocent fun. Leave them alone.”, says György Soros to DOJ:
https://tinyurl.com/y8ovrbes
Epic beat down of those pathetic Commie bastards in Phoenix. “Stop throwing shit” then boom. Amazing how a maybe a few hundred “protesters” were called “thousands” on all the Fake News.
Undercover FBI agents are well known for creating terrorism cases by finding gullible people, helping them build fake bombs, renting their vans and driving them to the target.
Could this same thing be going on with Antifa, by placing advertisements in Craigslist and elsewhere, providing organizers, delivering them to locations and documenting it? Anybody’s guess.
No doubt the FBI will already have the names many of the agitators. The warrant is probably needed to get enough evidence to track down and prosecute the puppet-masters.