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11-07-2013, 05:28 PM
The Federal Bureau of Investigation spent years conducting surveillance on a prominent libertarian anti-war web site, in part because the agency mistakenly believed that the activist page had tried to hack the FBI's own site, according to a new report.
FBI documents viewed by the The Guardian reveal that an investigation into Antiwar.com was motivated by an examination of a “threat” that planned to “hack the FBI web site.” Yet the site never threatened any such thing.
Heavily censored documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request indicate that Eric Garris, managing editor of Antiwar.com, had simply notified the FBI that Antiwar.com was the target of a hack. Somehow, months later, the FBI filed Antiwar.com as a potential cyber threat against the FBI, a mistake that lasted for years and effectively gave the FBI the power to monitor the inner workings of the site, which is often critical of US foreign policy.
More: http://rt.com/usa/antiwar-fbi-threat-surveillance-target-339/
FBI documents viewed by the The Guardian reveal that an investigation into Antiwar.com was motivated by an examination of a “threat” that planned to “hack the FBI web site.” Yet the site never threatened any such thing.
Heavily censored documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request indicate that Eric Garris, managing editor of Antiwar.com, had simply notified the FBI that Antiwar.com was the target of a hack. Somehow, months later, the FBI filed Antiwar.com as a potential cyber threat against the FBI, a mistake that lasted for years and effectively gave the FBI the power to monitor the inner workings of the site, which is often critical of US foreign policy.
More: http://rt.com/usa/antiwar-fbi-threat-surveillance-target-339/