[danudey]

'For journalists, you have to subpoena items, not seize them. That's the important point now.'

Not if it's the journalists you're investigating because you suspect THEY committed a crime (in this case, purchasing stolen property). The police aren't doing this to find his source, they're doing this to determine how much Chen/Gawker knew about the phone being stolen before they bought it, and what they did about it once they found out.

[gte910h]

Actually I believe that is exactly the case. The point is to protect all the sources of all the other stories. It's not to protect Chen.

[pyre]

> The police aren't doing this to find his source, they're doing this to determine how much Chen/Gawker knew about the phone being stolen before they bought it, and what they did about it once they found out.

That's what we suspect and what seems to be the case, but unless I missed an update, I don't believe the police have said what they are looking for specifically.