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Episode: Ryan Noah Shapiro - Hacking the FBI - How & Why to Liberate Government Records
Description: Hacking the FBI: How & Why to Liberate Government Records
Ryan Noah Shapiro PhD candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
After narrowly avoiding a lengthy activism-related prison sentence, I began PhD work at MIT in part to map out the criminalization of political dissent in Post-9/11 America. Especially in trying to obtain records from the FBI, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) work became an essential component of my research. However, it quickly became apparent that the FBI routinely refused to comply with FOIA. Less clear was how the Bureau was managing to accomplish this systematic violation of federal...