Legal Opinion
Samahon v. Federal Bureau of Investigation
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided August 25, 2014No. Civil Action No. 12-4839PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
EDUARDO C. ROBRENO, District Judge.
This is a case about abuse of governmental power by senior officials, in the federal government. Although technically framed as a request for disclosure of certain information in the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation- (“FBI”) pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act *503(“FOIA”), at bottom, the case is about the ability of the federal government to pry into the private lives of U.S. citizens with virtual impunity.
The case implicates the highest levels of the federal government, including President Lyndon B. Johnson, Associate Justice of…
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