GOP Lawmakers Urge Justice Department To Investigate Alleged Harassment Of Bloggers

Source: Huffington Post

Congressional Republicans are stepping up an effort to press the Department of Justice on alleged harassment of conservative bloggers through a practice known as "swatting."

Rep. Kenny Marchant (R-Texas) signed on to the effort Thursday, sending a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder expressing his concern about incidents in which police had been dispatched to the residences of prominent conservative bloggers after calls, ostensibly placed by the bloggers themselves from within their own households, reporting crimes.

“I am very afraid of the potential chilling effects that these reported actions may have in silencing individuals who would otherwise be inclined to exercise their Constitutional right to free speech,” Marchant wrote, according to Fox News.

Marchant's letter comes on the heels of a similar one from Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.), who wrote Holder asking him to launch a probe into the supposed occurences of swatting.

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