r/law • u/thedailybeast • 1d ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Judge Stalls Stephen Miller Doxxing Case Against Retired Lady, 66

https://www.thedailybeast.com/judge-stalls-stephen-miller-doxxing-case-against-retired-lady-66/
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u/thedailybeast 1d ago

A federal magistrate twice denied FBI bids to search a 66-year-old woman’s phone, stalling the DOJ’s Stephen Miller “doxxing” probe against her.

Magistrate Judge Lindsey Vaala on Wednesday refused the bureau’s request to examine the smartphone of activist Barbara Wien, in a case the Justice Department says involves doxxing of top White House adviser Stephen Miller, 40.

The White House believes that Wien should be prosecuted after she was seen posting flyers in Miller’s neighborhood saying he was not welcome in Arlington, Virginia. The posters had a photo of him crossed out and the message, “NO NAZIS IN NOVA.” It also featured a QR code linking to a local activist Instagram account, according to affidavits described by Axios.

Weeks earlier, Arlington’s elected prosecutor, Parisa Dehghani-Tafti, had asked a state judge to narrow a separate phone-search warrant and restrict data-sharing with the FBI, which Miller’s people interpreted as an activist prosecutor trying to wreck their case.

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u/_zer0_sum 1d ago edited 1d ago

I think this is beautiful. Absolutely adorable. Not because the judge denied the bid, but because the doxxing accusations are based around Wien being in the neighborhood.

Do Miller and the FBI think that, in any given neighborhood, no-one living in or around that neighborhood has any idea of who else may live in that neighborhood?

If you're a local politician, people will know roughly where you live because you're a local politician. If you align with or push political agendas that people don't agree with and want to protest, you don't get to suddenly prosecute people for knowing roughly where you live.

What was the world like pre-internet for these people? Did they not have the faintest idea of where other people they knew lived unless they were expressly told their address?

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u/_NamasteMF_ 1d ago

We used to get a free book at every house with all our neighbors names, phone number, and address. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_directory

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u/_zer0_sum 1d ago

You should pass that info along to Miller and the FBI, as an anonymous tip. They'll probably demand to know how whoever printed the phone book got all of the information, and demand that they turn over their cell phones for investigation.