Corbett (R Pa)withdraws subpoena of Twitter identities!

Attorney General Tom Corbett's office has withdrawn the subpoena it filed with Twitter, seeking to find the identities of two users who have been critical of Mr. Corbett on the social networking site.

Prosecutors said they do not need to know the identities, now that former Democratic aide Brett Cott has been sentenced to up to five years in jail for his role in the Bonusgate probe. They claimed Mr. Cott was the anonymous blogger CasablancaPa, whose identity they were seeking from Twitter, along with user "bfbarbie."

Mr. Cott's defense team denied there was any proof that he was the blogger, who has regularly criticized Mr. Corbett on his site. The Twitter users were poised to try to block the subpoena with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania.

The ACLU's help will not be needed, but its legal director Witold Walczak this afternoon called the withdrawn subpoena "an abuse of the grand jury system, to go on a fishing expedition to determine whether Twitter users were the defendant, with the purpose of sentencing."

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10141/1059846-100.stm

Next step: an independent investigation of the motivations behind the subpoenas.

He is running for GOVERNOR of PA (Rep.) - and I strongly urge everyone who can to vote against him.
I would love to see him removed from office altogther.


mark

is it mainly up to us to get out and vote in November.

Corbett IS the PA Attorney General and unlikely to investigate himself.

FWIW, the AG Corbett replaced went from office to prison.

mark

Everything the asswipe does is for his personal political gain.