Thread by @pnjaban

For months before FBI raids on Project Veritas over Ashley Biden diary DOJ already had, DOJ was spying on multiple PV journalists through secret subpoenas to Microsoft, concealed by secret, renewed gag orders. Which other journalists are they spying on?! projectveritas.com/news/microsoft…

The DOJ’s dragnet subpoenas of American journalists, including their attorney client, source, & donor communications, appears to violate a court order by SDNY Judge Torres, not to mention violating the First Amendment, the federal Privacy Protection Act, and DOJ regulations!

We do not have a free press in this country if the DOJ itself is allowed to be above the law, to simply bulldoze through our most fundamental constitutional law, federal laws protecting journalists from exactly such spying, and the Biden DOJ’s own regulations!!

DOJ did this all while sneaking around the federal judge on the case, going to six different magistrates to approve these spy warrants and gag orders. Did DOJ tell the judges that the subject were American journalists? Project Veritas is now demanding to see the search warrants.

Kudos to @Microsoft for refusing to go along with ongoing spying/gag orders on journalists long after the FBI raids & the appointment of a special master in the case, who DOJ has been circumventing. When Microsoft threatened to expose this in a court filing, DOJ pulled the plug.

Here is a link to colleague Paul Calli’s filing this morning in federal court for Veritas. It will ruin your day if you believe in liberty and constitutional limits! assets.ctfassets.net/syq3snmxclc9/3…