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cliffside

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Wed Feb 4, 2026, 12:06 AM 3 hrs ago

Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon ...

In October, a retiree emailed a DHS attorney to urge mercy for an asylum seeker. Then DHS subpoenaed his Google account and sent investigators to his home.

Full article/gift link

https://wapo.st/4rtfCw8

"He had decided that the America he believed in would not make it if people like him didn’t speak up, so on a cool, rainy morning in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Jon, 67 and recently retired, marched up to his study and began to type.

He had just read about the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s case against an Afghan it was trying to deport. The immigrant, identified in The Washington Post’s Oct. 30 investigation as H, had begged federal officials to reconsider, telling them the Taliban would kill him if he was returned to Afghanistan.

... Five hours and one minute later, Jon was watching TV with his wife when an email popped up in his inbox. He noticed it on his phone.
“Google,” the message read, “has received legal process from a Law Enforcement authority compelling the release of information related to your Google Account.”

.... That’s how it began. Soon would come a knock at the door by men with badges and, for Jon, the relentless feeling of being surveilled in a country where he never imagined he would be..."


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Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon ... (Original Post) cliffside 3 hrs ago OP
Horrifying...and utterly unconstitutional. SunSeeker 1 hr ago #1
Great article about administrative subpoenas nuxvomica 1 hr ago #2
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