The Accidents of Twitter's Subpoena

As part of Jack Smith's criminal investigation into Donald Trump the prosecutor prosecutor team under Jack Smith issued a subpoena to Twitter requiring Twitter produce the private communications that Donald Trump had on Twitter's platform namely direct messages. Not only did they require Twitter when Twitter objected and the court approved the subpoena to turn over these private communications they imposed a gag order on Twitter. They were barred prohibited from even telling Trump that the subpoena had been issued so he had no idea that Jack Smith was getting his private communications. This has become a increasingly common practice among the US security state  the Patriot Act for example allowed exactly this sort of thing where it enabled the FBI no longer use subpoenas but instead issue what are called