U.S. Federal lawmakers say the FBI and other agencies may have placed unnecessary restrictions on Americans’ ability to file public records requests in response to the pandemic. They are now asking the U.S. Justice Department to explain what steps are being taken to ensure the law is being followed, to…
On May 31, 2018, the Twitter account for Tyler Q. Houlton, former press secretary for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, sent out a tweet lecturing Senator Dianne Feinstein of California about the Trump regime’s immigration policies. The DHS tweet was shocking for its aggressive nature, but newly released emails…
Nearly two years before the U.S. government’s first known inquiry into the activities of Reddit co-founder and famed digital activist Aaron Swartz, the FBI swept up his email data in a counterterrorism investigation that also ensnared students at an American university, according to a once-secret document first published by Gizmodo.
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