Bev Harris’s entry about investigation of her website (in case it’s not still at the top, it’s from April 29) and the government’s hamhanded attempts to use one crime (which from the sounds of it, was the government attempting to entrap her into the crime) to piggyback and find out some other information:
Now, I have been interviewed by the Secret Service on this VoteHere “hack” story about five times. They never spend much time on the hack. Most of the time is spent on the Diebold memos, which they claim they are not investigating.
Here’s the deal: The leaking of memos to journalists is not something the government can come in and demand to investigate very easily.
Under the Patriot Act, “hacking” crimes were turned over to a new division, called the CyberCrimes division, and placed under the auspices of the Secret Service. And let me tell you what they want from me now: They want the logs of my web site with all the forum messages, and the IP addresses. That’s right. All of them. A giant fishing expedition for every communication of everyone interested in the voting issue. This has nothing to do with a VoteHere “hack” investigation, and I have refused to turn it over.
You know what? I don’t know if things would be better under John Kerry. I do know that they’ve gotten this bad under George Bush.
(Found via Body and Soul.)