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Glomar response

Courts Government Technology 

Judge Rules FBI Cannot Hide Use of Social Media Surveillance Tools

November 18, 2019November 19, 2019 NICHOLAS IOVINO
FBI, FOIA, Glomar response, Social Media, Surveillance

The FBI cannot hide whether it uses powerful surveillance tools to monitor the social media activity of millions of Americans and noncitizens, a federal judge ruled Monday.

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Government 

Public Record

November 13, 2019November 13, 2019 BRIEF
FOIA, Glomar response, Labor Department

The Center For Investigative Reporting sued the U.S. Department of Labor in federal court for records of complaints against the drug rehab company Synanon; it says the Glomar response it received is inadequate.

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Courts Government 

Do Trump Tweets Compel Admission of Spying? Judge Will Decide

February 6, 2019February 6, 2019 NICHOLAS IOVINO
FOIA, Glomar response, Surveillance, Trump administration

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.

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Civil Rights Government 

NYPD Denied Spy-Like Secrecy in Protest Case

January 14, 2019January 14, 2019 ADAM KLASFELD
FOIA, Glomar response, NYPD, protests, Social Media, Surveillance

Refusing 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.

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Courts Government International Law 

Judge Hands ACLU Partial Victory in Request for Yemen Raid Docs

June 27, 2018June 28, 2018 NICK RUMMELL
FOIA, Glomar response, raids, Trump administration, Yemen

The 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. 

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Appeals Civil Rights Government 

New York’s Top Court Grants Spy-Like Cover to NYPD

March 29, 2018March 29, 2018 ADAM KLASFELD
CIA, FOIA, Glomar response, Muslims, NYC, Police, Surveillance

Just 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.

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Appeals Civil Rights Government 

Top NY Court Grapples With Records Demand Mired in Spy Secrecy

February 6, 2018 NICK RUMMELL
Glomar response, Muslims, NYPD, public records, Surveillance

New York’s highest court seemed unlikely Tuesday to make the NYPD face a records demand about a controversial Muslim surveillance program.

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Government 

FBI Hammered in Court for Pre-Election Records on Trump

June 20, 2017June 21, 2017 BRITAIN EAKIN
Donald Trump, FBI, FOIA, Glomar response, Jason Leopold, Washington DC

Bashing 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.

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Civil Rights Government 

Spy-Level Secrecy at NYPD Draws Objections

May 23, 2017May 24, 2017 ADAM KLASFELD
CIA, FOIA, Glomar response, New York, NYC, NYPD, Police, protests, Surveillance

A 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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Government International 

CIA Hammered After Shrug on Israel Records

March 31, 2017March 31, 2017 BRITAIN EAKIN
Budget, CIA, FOIA, Glomar response, Israel, nuclear power, Obama administration

A federal judge called it “neither logical nor plausible” Thursday that the CIA has no information about intelligence budget-line items earmarked for Israel between 1990 and 2015.

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