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On August 20, the FBI asked a federal judge for something unusual: permission to argue, in secret, why records about a sitting head of state should stay hidden from the public that requested them. The judge said yes. The head of state is Bola Tinubu, president of Nigeria. The records
Operation Puppet Master: Inside DHS's Surveillance of Minnesota Dissidents Who Broke No Laws
Inside DHS' Covert Surveillance of Minnesota Churches, Unions, and a Brewery
Court filings unsealed last week in a federal conspiracy case out of Minneapolis show the Department of Homeland Security ran a monthslong covert surveillance operation against people who were never charged with a crime. Agents wore wires into a church self-defense class, logged license plates outside a Lutheran congregation,