"The public could soon learn more about the FBI’s practice of impersonating documentary film crews as part of its criminal investigations. The nonprofit Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press filed a Freedom of Information Act request for records about this technique. The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia March 1 rejected the FBI’s attempt to keep those records private."
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FBI Loses Bid to Keep Records on Fake Film Crews Secret, Bloomberg Law (4 March 2019)
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