Media Matters: Fox's Napolitano falsely claims no Limbaugh search warrant

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Mon Mar-07-05 01:57 PM
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Media Matters: Fox's Napolitano falsely claims no Limbaugh search warrant

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Napolitano falsely claimed Florida prosecutors had no search warrant to seize Limbaugh's medical records

Fox News legal analyst Judge Andrew P. Napolitano falsely claimed that Florida prosecutors "did not go to a judge to get a search warrant" to obtain the medical records of radio host Rush Limbaugh, who was under investigation over allegations that he had illegally obtained multiple prescriptions for painkillers. In fact, as The Palm Beach Post reported, Limbaugh's medical records were seized through search warrants that "were obtained after investigators showed a judge Limbaugh's extensive prescription records from pharmacies near his $24 million Palm Beach mansion."

Limbaugh's attorney, Roy Black, recently argued before the Florida Supreme Court that "patients should be notified before their medical records are seized or inspected" , but he did not challenge the validity of the warrant. Florida's 4th District Court of Appeal ruled in October 2004 that Limbaugh's medical records were properly seized .

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From the March 3 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor:

NAPOLITANO: In the Rush Limbaugh case with his drug problems, the government did not go to a judge to get a search warrant. That's what his whole case is about. They just went to his doctors and grabbed the records.

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Guckert

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Mon Mar-07-05 02:01 PM
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1. Fox "news". enough said.

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FreedomAngel82

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Mon Mar-07-05 02:17 PM
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3. Yep

Edited on Mon Mar-07-05 02:18 PM by FreedomAngel82

Like I trust faux. :eyes: They're trying to make him innocent in this whole drug case.

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Pawel K

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Mon Mar-07-05 02:17 PM
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2. Napolitano is O'Reilly's puppet

Somehow he always forgets the facts the dispute O'Reilly or other Fox News anchors.

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ComerPerro

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Mon Mar-07-05 02:42 PM
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4. 24 million dollar mansion in Palm Beach

and these idiot Dittoheads in the midwest still think he is one of them?

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SoCalifer

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Mon Mar-07-05 02:48 PM
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5. If this were you or I

Bringing up this defense, they would just simply site the Patriot Act, and say that the purchasing and interstate trafficking of drugs supports the terrorists, and therefore qualifies the Patriot Act's warrantless search.

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proud patriot

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Mon Mar-07-05 02:49 PM
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6. Fox News Lies Daily

:hi:

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