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AP sues over access to FBI records involving fake news story
August 29, 2015
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Associated Press has sued the US Department of Justice over the FBI's failure to provide public records related to the creation of a fake news story used to plant surveillance software on a suspect's computer.
AP joined with the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press to file the lawsuit in US District Court for the District of Columbia.
At issue is a 2014 Freedom of Information request seeking documents related to the FBI's decision to send a web link to the fake article to a 15-year-old boy suspected of making bomb threats to a high school near Olympia, Washington.
The link enabled the FBI to infect the suspect's computer with software that revealed its location and Internet address.