Border Official Admits Targeting Journalists and Human Rights Advocates With Smuggling Investigations
▻https://theintercept.com/2019/05/17/border-smuggling-journalists-activists
When first confronted with evidence that it was collaborating with Mexican law enforcement in a sweeping intelligence-gathering operation targeting journalists, activists and attorneys along the U.S.-Mexico divide, Customs and Border Protection was silent. When still more evidence emerged, in the form of documents leaked by a Department of Homeland Security whistleblower, the agency dismissed the significance of the revelations as routine law enforcement work. Now, more than four months (...)
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