weso1
10-26-2013, 07:50 AM
Because they thought her husband had a potato gun. What were they going to arrest him for? For being kind of awesome?
Anyway, this seems to be the real reason:
Maryland state police and federal agents used a search warrant in an unrelated criminal investigation to seize the private reporting files of an award-winning former investigative journalist for The Washington Times who had exposed problems in the Homeland Security Department's Federal Air Marshal Service.
Reporter Audrey Hudson said the investigators, who included an agent for Homeland's Coast Guard service, took her private notes and government documents that she had obtained under the Freedom of Information Act during a predawn raid of her family home on Aug. 6.
link (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/25/armed-agents-seize-records-reporter-washington-tim/)
Anyway, this seems to be the real reason:
Maryland state police and federal agents used a search warrant in an unrelated criminal investigation to seize the private reporting files of an award-winning former investigative journalist for The Washington Times who had exposed problems in the Homeland Security Department's Federal Air Marshal Service.
Reporter Audrey Hudson said the investigators, who included an agent for Homeland's Coast Guard service, took her private notes and government documents that she had obtained under the Freedom of Information Act during a predawn raid of her family home on Aug. 6.
link (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/25/armed-agents-seize-records-reporter-washington-tim/)