Declassified Docs Show NSA Trying To Prosecute A Journalist For His Successful FOIA Requests
from the war-on-whistleblowers,-leakers,-and-FOIA-records-requesters dept MuckRock has been digging into a large pile of declassified CIA documents for the past several months and has come up with some surprising finds. It recently liberated nearly 13 million pages of CIA documents -- known as the CREST archive -- via a FOIA lawsuit. Since this monumental release, MuckRock has covered everything from a CIA report on an Italian pasta shortage to deeper, darker topics like a CIA asset in Mexico being linked to a long list of atrocities. Read More:: US Army Working On A Device That Can Assess Traumatic Brain Injury On The Battlefield Digging through the CIA's archives has dug up dirt on other agencies as well. Emma Best details another MuckRock/CIA gem -- one that shows the NSA attempting to prosecute a journalist for obtaining documents via FOIA requests. Declassified documents in the Central Intelligence Agency’s archives show that while the CIA was looking to include t...