Gur Tsabar

As the New York Times reported today, the office of Bronx district attorney Robert Johnson subpoenaed Ben Smith and Gur Tsabar, the co-founders of Room Eight, looking for someone who wrote unflattering posts about D.A. Richard Johnson and forbidding the recipients from making public the fact that they had been subpoenaed.

The prosecutor's demands - which were for the I.P. address for a blogger writing under the name "Republican Dissident," who had been critical of Johnson and the Republican Party in the Bronx -- were eventually withdrawn. (Johnson has run with Republican support and is generally seen as an ally to the party even though he himself is a Democrat.  read more »