#obstruction

#GiftArticle A #US Citizen Deleted His #Phone’s #Data. Now He Faces a #Felony Charge. Federal prosecutors charged a man returning to the United States with #obstruction because he gave them a passcode that erased his #smartphone during a customs search. #law #InfoSec #privacy

…Federal prosecutors in Atlanta are bringing an #obstruction charge against a #US citizen who gave customs officers what is known as a #duress passcode, which activated software that erased the contents of his #phone. The authorities stopped Samuel Tunick, an Atlanta resident, for interrogation at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Int’l Airport as he returned to the US Jan 24 last year, acc/to a Nov grand jury indictment. The authorities seized his phone before allowing him to enter the country. #law

Others in Blanche’s office led teams responsible for digging up information on hot-button political issues — an #FBI memo to a #conservative Catholic group in Richmond, VA; federal scrutiny of conservative school board members’ & prosecutions of #AntiAbortion activists under the #FACE Act, a 1994 #law that prohibits #obstruction & #intimidation at women's clinics. #law #LegalEthics #DOJ #ToddBlanche #Trump #retribution