The subpoena, part of a civil suit in which New York City is a defendant, demands voluminous information, including all of the Independent Media Center's news reporting, emails, internal documents, and web pages relating to the World Economic Forum.
As the NYC IMC detailed in its response, the request violates reporter's privilege by seeking information that is available through other sources and that is not highly relevant to the claim.
"Why doesn't the City ask the New York Times for all of their articles and emails relating to the World Economic Forum?" Arun Gupta, an editor of the NYC IMC newspaper, The Indypendent, said.
The subpoena is the fourth time since August 2004 that US law enforcement has taken legal action against the Independent Media Center. Three of the four subpoenas have been issued in New York City.
there's reaqlly nothing like watching a friend standing right next to you get pepper-sprayed in the mouth after the NYPD charges into a crowd, beats people with batons and drags them into cop wagons while the president of your university parties inside with the former president of Mexico and a guy who vetoed the first minimum wage increase in his state in forever. ('67)
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