Writes Brian O'Connell: "I've recently become a daily reader to your website, I was originally attracted by your on the point Ron Paul news and blogs, and have stayed for all of your other content. I was suprised to see that you haven't mentioned anything about the current situation in Phoenix, which basically comes down to Sheriff Joe vs the constitution. A brief summary would be that the Sheriff had his personal attorney appointed to be a special prosecuter against the Phoenix Newtimes, who issused a grand jury supenoa demanding:
A) which pages visitors access or visit on the Phoenix New Times website;
B) the total number of visitors to the Phoenix New Times website;
C) information obtained from 'cookies,' including, but not limited to, authentication, tracking, and maintaining specific information about users (site preferences, contents of electronic shopping carts, etc.);
D) the Internet Protocol address of anyone that accesses the Phoenix New Times website from January 1, 2004 to the present;E) the domain name of anyone that has accessed the Phoenix New Times website from January 1, 2004 to the present;
F) the website a user visited prior to coming to the Phoenix New Times website;
G) the date and time of a visit by a user to the Phoenix New Times website;
H) the type of browser used by each visitor (Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Netscape Navigator, Firefox, etc.) to the Phoenix New Times website; and
I) the type of operating system used by each visitor to the Phoenix New Times website.
"The story can be found here.
"Sheriff Joe is well known in these parts for intimidation of political oppenents, and this whole ordeal came about from the New Times investigating how a man making $78,000 a year can be buying land worth millions of dollars in cold hard cash. I think this is a story your readers would be interested in."
