{"id":38482,"date":"2019-07-09T13:36:20","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T18:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=38482"},"modified":"2019-07-09T13:36:20","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T18:36:20","slug":"atl-the-difference-between-bryan-carmody-and-julian-assange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=38482","title":{"rendered":"ATL: The Difference Between Bryan Carmody And Julian Assange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATL: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2019\/07\/the-difference-between-bryan-carmody-and-julian-assange\/\">The Difference Between Bryan Carmody And Julian Assange<\/a> by Tyler Broker:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Since early May, a terrifying ordeal has been playing out in San Francisco. A journalist, Bryan Carmody, had his home raided by the San Francisco police department after he refused to divulge a confidential source. This was an objectively deplorable raid for a couple of reasons.<\/p>\n<p>First, in the infamous Pentagon Papers case, members of the United States Supreme Court noted that \u201c[b]oth the history and language of the First Amendment\u201d supported the view that the press must \u201cbe left free to publish news, whatever the source, without censorship, injunctions, or prior restraints.\u201d In the press world, Bryan Carmody \u201cis what\u2019s known as a stringer,\u201d a person who collects material and provides it to news organizations. In other words, Carmody is not a source; he is, by his very nature, a reporter of information and deserving of First Amendment protection. Secondly, California has a shield law that protects the confidentiality of Carmody\u2019s sources.<\/p>\n<p>Given the First Amendment implications and the state specific protection, the fact that not one but two judges signed-off on the raid of Carmody\u2019s home amounts to nothing less than a judicial disgrace. A disturbing failure by the California magistrates to adequately protect a journalist from unjust detainment and gross abuse of state power. The judicial sign-off to the raid is also the product of a grossly abused Fourth Amendment standard that lacks meaningful judicial oversight and is regularly satisfied by incredibly flawed evidence with absurdly high error rates.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATL: The Difference Between Bryan Carmody And Julian Assange by Tyler Broker:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-privileges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38483,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38482\/revisions\/38483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}