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A new lawsuit seeks to shake loose information about a protester database possibly being used by the Trump administration to log and monitor critics of the government.<\/p>\n

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Legal advocacy group Democracy Forward is supporting digital outlet The Intercept that asks a federal judge to compel the administration to release documents related to any such database.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit comes as Donald Trump\u2019s administration \u2014 while it contends with the president\u2019s historic unpopularity \u2014 has sought to quash dissent, in a crackdown that has seen federal agents use lethal force against protesters.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit cites several instances in which agents either openly talked about a database for tracking protesters or alluded to such a database existing. The evidence includes comments like those in the video below, in which a protester was photographed by an agent and then told that she would be going into a \u201cnice little database\u201d and was now \u201cconsidered a domestic terrorist.\u201d<\/p>\n

The suit, which was filed Wednesday, says the federal government hasn\u2019t complied with The Intercept\u2019s Freedom of Information Act requests regarding the Trump administration\u2019s collection of information on protesters, as required by law.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s not illegal to monitor the activity of immigration agents inside your community,\u201d Ben Muessig, editor-in-chief of The Intercept, said in a news release. \u201cWhat is illegal is the U.S. government\u2019s secret list of activists \u2014 and its refusal to turn over information about that database to the American public.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a more recent example of the government\u2019s efforts to intimidate critics, two U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents reportedly pulled up on an election worker this week in Syracuse, New York, and threatened her with prosecution over a social media post calling for the indictment of Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who fatally shot protester Ren\u00e9e Good in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration has made abundantly clear its intent to brand liberals as terrorists in order to weaponize the federal government against them. A prime example of this is its perverse \u201ccounterterrorism\u201d directive, known as NSPM-7, that can be used to target people who express \u201canti-Americanism,\u201d \u201canti-capitalism\u201d and \u201canti-Christianity.\u201d The administration also has signed contracts with tech companies that have developed technology that repressive governments have used to spy on critics and quash dissent.<\/p>\n

And all of these machinations \u2014 effectively cosigned by the country\u2019s extremely vengeful president \u2014 fuel concerns about what sort of database the federal government might be keeping to track its critics, and what it intends to do with information it collects.<\/p>\n

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The Intercept is teaming up with Democracy Forward in an attempt to pry loose details about a database the Trump administration is allegedly using to track critics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us"],"yoast_head":"\nLawsuit seeks to uncover information about alleged federal database on protesters - Long Distance Movers USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/longdistancemoversusas.com\/?p=208\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lawsuit seeks to uncover information about alleged federal database on protesters - 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