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JUSTICE DEPARTMENT HELPED WASHINGTON STATE PROSECUTOR TARGET FACEBOOK RECORDS OF ANTI-PIPELINE ACTIVISTS<\/a><\/h3>\n
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NINE MONTHS AFTER<\/u> pipeline opponents in Washington state staged a protest that blocked freeway traffic, Facebook ended a protracted legal standoff with a county prosecutor, turning over detailed records on the indigenous-led group behind the demonstration. Despite the fact that no criminal charges have been filed in connection with the February action, Whatcom County Prosecuting Attorney David McEachran repeatedly sought a warrant for the group\u2019s Facebook page, ultimately securing private information including\u00a0messages to and from the page and a list of everyone \u201cinvited\u201d to the protest event.<\/p>\n

McEachran\u2019s first two warrant applications were withdrawn after the American Civil Liberties Union and Facebook raised objections. On the third try, however, the warrant was granted thanks to Facebook\u2019s suggestion that McEachran\u2019s office seek formal guidance from the nation\u2019s top law enforcement agency, the Department of Justice. A\u00a0public records\u00a0request filed by The Intercept shows that the local agency and its federal counterpart cooperated to draft the ultimately successful warrant using a DOJ template.<\/p>\n

Activists affiliated with the climate justice group, Red Line Salish Sea,\u00a0view the investigation as retaliation for their February protest, a march against local fossil fuel projects and President Donald Trump\u2019s executive orders expediting construction of the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines.\u00a0\u201cNot only does this warrant attempt to scare people from organizing, this warrant attempts to scare people from even looking at information,\u201d Tina McKim, an administrator of\u00a0Red Line\u2019s Facebook page, wrote in a declaration<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Ty Campbell via The Red Line Salish Sea JUSTICE DEPARTMENT HELPED WASHINGTON STATE PROSECUTOR TARGET FACEBOOK RECORDS OF ANTI-PIPELINE ACTIVISTS NINE MONTHS AFTER pipeline opponents in Washington state staged a protest that blocked freeway traffic, Facebook ended a protracted legal standoff with a county prosecutor, turning over detailed records on the indigenous-led group behind […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[14,17876,1493,16126,5567,3672,9149],"class_list":["post-29739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-activism","tag-anti-pipeline-protests","tag-facebook","tag-simon-davis-cohen","tag-the-intercept","tag-us-justice-department","tag-washington-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29740,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29739\/revisions\/29740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}