A federal judge ordered the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to cough up documents it withheld in 2017 to hide its efforts to reveal the identity of a Trump critic. The CBP asked Twitter for records of a citizen criticizing then President Donald Trump’s immigration policies. Twitter forced the agency to drop its request, and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press filed for records relating to the CBP action. (Reclaim the Net, October 21, 2021, by Tom Parker)
In his decision, the judge chastised the agency for its poor effort to comply with the Freedom of Information Act requests. (Law360, October 19, 2021, by Victoria McKenzie)