President Donald Trump’s tweets about the FBI wiretapping his 2016 campaign likely don’t qualify as an “official acknowledgment” that would require the government to reveal details about its surveillance activities, a federal judge said in court Wednesday.
Read moreRefusing to confirm or deny the existence of records may work for the CIA, but a judge refused Monday to let New York City use the tactic to keep protesters in the dark about police surveillance.
Read moreThe White House may have slipped up and acknowledged the existence of records relating to a 2017 controversial raid in Yemen that the CIA wants to withhold from the ACLU, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
Read moreJust like the CIA, the New York City Police Department can now “neither confirm nor deny” the existence of documents, thanks to a ruling Thursday from the state’s highest court.
Read moreNew York’s highest court seemed unlikely Tuesday to make the NYPD face a records demand about a controversial Muslim surveillance program.
Read moreBashing the FBI for equivocating on whether it has pre-election records on President Donald Trump, a government-transparency group brought a federal complaint to spur action.
Read moreA group inspired by Black Lives Matter claims in a court complaint that New York City police are channeling the CIA to keep a lid on their monitoring of citizen protesters
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