The Associated Press and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press have filed a suit against the Justice Department and the FBI in an effort to get them to release records related to the FBI allegedly impersonating members of the news media.
FBI involvement stemmed from an investigation into a series of bomb threats at Timberline High School in Lacey, Washington in 2007. While investigating the FBI obtained a warrant to deliver surveillance software known as a “Computer and Internet Protocol Address Verifier” (CIPAV) to a social media account associated with the threats. Once delivered, the CIPAV would send “the activating computer’s IP address and/or MAC address, other environment variables, and certain registry-type information to a computer controlled by the FBI.”
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