At 5:00 AM -0800 on 3/30/01, GigaLaw.com wrote: > Wired News Reporter Fighting Subpoena > Declan McCullagh -- the Wired News reporter who on March 8 was > subpoenaed by the Justice Department to testify in the case against > cypherpunk Jim Bell -- filed a motion on Thursday with the U.S. District > Court to quash the subpoena, claiming it would violate the First Amendment > protections accorded to journalists. Bell, who is famous for popularizing > "Assassination Politics," a site that incorporated digital cash and > encryption in a scheme to anonymously off political figures, has been > charged with two counts of violating federal stalking laws. > Read the article: Wired News @ > http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,42735,00.html -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
