By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The ACLU sued Border Patrol to get more insight into the use of “roving patrols,” Reuters reports. The suit comes after the CBP ignored a July 2014 request under the Freedom of Information Act to release information on the patrols, which lead to people being stopped more than 100 miles from…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Homeland Security reached a rare settlement with a newspaper after seizing a reporter’s notes and records from her home while executing a warrant for information on guns allegedly possessed by her husband, the Washington Times reports. The agency agreed to reimburse some of the legal bills accred by the newspaper and…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A flood has wiped out a good portion of the FBI’s documents on the civil rights era. IO9 reports the discovery was made recently after a professor had requested documents related to the Ku Klux Klan. Those documents – and many more – were destroyed when the FBI’s archives in Alexandria, Va.,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI’s argument for resisting an inmate’s Freedom of Information Act request is “transparently implausible,” a federal judge said in admonishing the bureau, the Sacramento Bee reports. The FBI made the bizarre argument that the “FOIA request need not be disclosed because they reside on two CDs and a thumb drive.” The…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The U.S. did not violate the constitution or other laws by killing American citizen Anwar Awlaki in Yemen without due process of law, the Justice Department argues in a previously secret memoir release by a federal court Monday, the Los Angeles Times reports. The memo was written in 2010, a year before…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Did a CIA tip lead to Neslon Mandela’s 1962 arrest and subsequent 27 years of imprisonment in South Africa? A Ph.D. candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ryan Shapiro, filed suit Tuesday against the NSA, FBI and Defense Intelligence Agency for failing to turn over records with a Freedom of Information…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI has finally confirmed that a civil rights activist who disappeared while supporting Native Americans in South Dakota four decades was murdered, the Buffalo News reports. Roy Robinson went missing after arriving at Wounded Knee to support the American Indian Movement’s fight against the federal government. The discovery wasn’t easy for…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A confidential Justice Department legal opinion on the extent of the FBI’s surveillance authority does not have to be released to the public, a federal appeals court ruled, the Washington Post reports. The January 2010 memo gave the FBI permission to gather phone call records from telecommunications companies. The U.S. Court of…
