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Earth First activist close to obtaining evidence in 1990 car bombing

donal brown April 5, 2012

A new federal judge order has cleared the way for the release of evidence in a 1990 car bombing in the San Francisco Bay Area that injured two Earth First activists. The FBI had contended for a time that the two were injured by a detonation of their own bomb, and the two injured sued the FBI to obtain the evidence. -db From the Courthouse News Service, April 4, 2012, by Jonny Bonner. Full story

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FBI suffers setback in effort to bury file on 1960s informant

donal brown April 5, 2012

  The FBI lost another round Wednesday in its quest to withhold records detailing the late Memphis photographer Ernest Withers’ secret work as an informant in the 1960s. A federal judge held that the FBI made errors and lapses but also deliberate decisions that confirmed the fact that Withers was an informant, making his file eligible for release to the Memphis Commercial Appeal under the Freedom of Information Act.  -db From the Memphis Commercial Appeal,

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Journalist gains access to FBI records on Ronald Reagan

donal brown March 8, 2012

A federal judge ruled a journalist could have access to an FBI document relating to what the journalist claims is former president Ronald Reagan’s work as an FBI informant before he ran for president. The journalist says that the FBI helped Reagan in his political career and argued that the  FBI’s file on Reagan could not have been made with any legitimate law enforcement purpose. -db From the Courthouse News Service, March 8, 2012, by

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Federal judge rules FBI cannot withhold information about informant from Civil Rights era

donal brown February 2, 2012

A federal district judge ruled that the FBI could not use a Freedom of Information Act exclusion in denying access to records about a civil rights era photographer who was an informant for the agency. The judge said the FBI confirmed the relationship with their response to the FOIA request so could not then withhold the records. -db From The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, February 1, 2012, by Rachel Bunn. Full story

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Government watchdog alleges FBI stonewalling on WikiLeaks surveillance

donal brown January 31, 2012

The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has sued the Justice Department and the FBI claiming that they refuse to release information on the FBI’s surveillance of citizens who have shown support for or interest in WikiLeaks. EPIC made the Freedom of Information Act complaint in federal court. -db From the Courthouse News Service, January 31, 2012, by Iulia Filip. Full story  

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