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CLASSIC: Ernest Withers: Civil Rights Hero, FBI Spy

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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The Importance of Freedom of Information Acts

The law exempts informant records from the Freedom of Information Act and they can pretend like certain records don't even exist. The government said, you know, in that law that unless they first officially confirmed somebody as an informant, they don't have to release anything. And then they had to admit in court that, hey, this is what we were doing.

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