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Report: Error Prompted FBI Spying on Antiwar.com

HeadlineNov 08, 2013

New details have emerged on the FBI’s surveillance of Antiwar.com. Documents received under a records request by the ACLU of Northern California show the FBI monitored the site for at least six years, in part because it mistakenly believed a founding editor had threatened to hack the FBI’s website. An ACLU attorney says the surveillance violated federal law.

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