Mashable reports on how the FBI was able to obtain a search warrant in 2010 for a reporter’s Gmail account without his knowledge. The Justice Department was investigating Fox News reporter James Rosen for allegedly violating the Espionage Act after Rosen’s 2009 report on North Korea’s planned nuclear tests. The department obtained the warrant by analyzing the communications  of one of Rosen’s sources, Stephen Jin-Woo Kim, a government advisor. “Search warrants like these have a severe chilling effect on the free flow of important information to the public,” said a First Amendment lawyer.
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