BuzzFeed - The Justice Department made the classic mistake of reading the comments, and now it wants to know the identity of internet commenters who talked about putting a federal judge in a wood chipper. The attorney and parents of Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road, last month. DON EMMERT / Getty Images The Justice Department has issued a federal grand jury subpoena to Reason, a prominent libertarian publication, to unmask the identity of commenters who made alleged threats against a federal judge. In the June 2 subpoena, first published by the blog Popehat on Monday, the Justice Department orders Reason to provide a federal grand jury with "any and all identifying information" on the identities of commenters who mused about shooting federal judges and/or feeding them through a wood chipper. A May 31 article on Reason's blog about the prosecution of Silk Road founder Ross "Dread Pirate Roberts" Ulbricht spurred the anonymous commenters' vitriol. Ulbricht pleaded for leniency, bu
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