INTELLIGENCE/LEGAL/PROTESTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A D.C judge has ordered web hosting company DreamHost to turn over information about an anti-Trump website, but moved to conceal the identities of users who feared government retaliation for engaging in innocent political speech…
The order Chief Judge Robert Morin issued Tuesday [10-10-17] still compels DreamHost to give government lawyers files, messages, and other information from DisruptJ20.org, a website used to convene and coordinate protesters ahead of President Donald Trump’s inauguration. But the company can now redact the identities of individual users from the data that will be handed over to the government, the judge ruled.
In order to obtain that information, the Justice Department must demonstrate to the court that their activity on the site is directly related to the agency’s ongoing criminal investigation of alleged rioting on Inauguration Day, according to the order.
The government ‘does not have the right to rummage through the information contained on DreamHost’s website and discover the identity of, or access communications by, individuals not participating in alleged criminal activity,’ the order states.
A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s office in D.C., which has charged more than 200 people with felony rioting on the day of Trump’s swearing-in, declined to comment on the order.”
-Steven Overly and Josh Gerstein, “Judge moves to conceal identities of users behind anti-Trump website,” Politico, Oct. 10, 2017 05:05pm