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Al Jazeera obtains declassified documents on deceased Rolling Stone journalist following FOIA lawsuit
The FBI released a heavily redacted document on Rolling Stone journalist Michael Hastings, Monday, which revealed the law-enforcement agency is continuing to investigate what it characterized as "controversial reporting" by the journalist, who died in a late-night car crash in Los Angeles in June.
The FBI turned over the three-page document to Al Jazeera and Ryan Shapiro, a doctoral candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who specializes in FOIA research, in response to a joint-Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed against the agency.
In a declaration released with the records, Denny Argall, the FBI'S public liaison officer, wrote that after the agency searched for responsive records it located one "cross reference" file pertaining to a pending criminal investigation. The FBI would not comment further about the nature of the probe.
The papers revealed that the FBI still considers Hastings' work highly sensitive; even the title of the case file has been withheld under a FOIA exemption that claims that the information, if disclosed, could interfere with an ongoing law-enforcement investigation.
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http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/9/9/fbi-releases-redacteddocumentonmichaelhastings.html
dkf
(37,305 posts)Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)on the on going criminal investigation hint.
Thank the press for their lawsuit that revealed this information.
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)Wilms
(26,795 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)about a missing American soldier currently being held by the Taliban, and the Hastings articles are part of that investigation.