AP Sues Over Access To FBI Records Involving Fake News Story
Source: Associated Press
Aug 27, 11:11 AM EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Associated Press sued the U.S. Department of Justice Thursday over the FBI's failure to provide public records related to the creation of a fake news story used to plant surveillance software on a suspect's computer.
AP joined with the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press to file the lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
At issue is a 2014 Freedom of Information request seeking documents related to the FBI's decision to send a web link to the fake article to a 15-year-old boy suspected of making bomb threats to a high school near Olympia, Washington. The link enabled the FBI to infect the suspect's computer with software that revealed its location and Internet address.
AP strongly objected to the ruse, which was uncovered last year in documents obtained through a separate FOIA request made by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Read more: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_FBI_FAKE_NEWS_STORY_LAWSUIT?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-08-27-09-45-05
underthematrix
(5,811 posts)field officers. I wonder if AP would file FOIA requests for those records.
padfun
(1,786 posts)If the kid was truly making bomb threats, then the FBI was right in trying to determine where the kid was.
If the FBI didn't do this, then they would have caught flack when the kid did blow something up.
randome
(34,845 posts)Sounds like a good use of resources to me.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]"The whole world is a circus if you know how to look at it."
Tony Randall, 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)[/center][/font][hr]
muriel_volestrangler
(101,321 posts)They object to the FBI doing it, sure, but they are not, at this stage anyway, trying to stop them, but trying to find out how often it's done.
randome
(34,845 posts)Oh, geeze, after reading the article, they're worried about their credibility?
[hr][font color="blue"][center]"The whole world is a circus if you know how to look at it."
Tony Randall, 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)[/center][/font][hr]
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)It's even in the name. If it was Democratic enough for the Stasi, it should be for us, eh?
bananas
(27,509 posts)The FBI is stonewalling.
Wonder what they're hiding?
Darb
(2,807 posts)Then worry about the tactics used to stop a lunatic kid from bombing his school.