Bush Administration Uses Grand Jury to Encroach on State's Rights and Journalistic Privacy
Josh Wolf, a stringer journalist, was present at a July 2005 demonstration in San Francisco, where a SFPD car was damaged. Normally the federal government would not get involved in a local issue, but the Bush administration has chosen to take the position that since federal money helped pay for the car, through matching funds, they are an interested party, and can claim video footage of journalists.