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A comment on US Government Tracking Journalists and Immigration Advocates.

Re:US Government Tracking Journalists and Immigration Advocates by creaghpatr on Thursday March 07, 2019 @12:46PM (#19330187)
>For each person, the documents show their photo, often from their passport but in some cases from their social media accounts, along with their personal information. That information includes the person’s date of birth, their “country of commencement,” and their alleged role tied to the migrant caravan.

Awfully inconvenient of NBC San Diego and/or the leakers not to release the documents so we could see examples of "their alleged role tied to the migrant caravan". Would probably be helpful context.

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Re:US Government Tracking Journalists and Immigration Advocates by cloudsinthesky on Thursday March 07, 2019 @12:56PM (#19330309)
> not to release the documents

I'm quite certain the crime here would be releasing these documents and doxxing innocent people who are doing their normal, okay, not-illegal jobs.

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Re:US Government Tracking Journalists and Immigration Advocates by untog on Thursday March 07, 2019 @01:13PM (#19330495)
Wouldn't that involve releasing people's personal information? I don't think that's a good idea at all.
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Re:US Government Tracking Journalists and Immigration Advocates by sl1ck731 on Thursday March 07, 2019 @12:59PM (#19330338)
Yea I don't really see how you can support or dismiss this either way without knowing what the 3 letter agencies think the people in this list are doing.

For all we know they could have been in contact with cartel or cartel associates in an official capacity just investigating things which of course might put them on a list.

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Re:US Government Tracking Journalists and Immigration Advocates by msbarnett on Thursday March 07, 2019 @01:41PM (#19330785)
The documents are literally linked to from the article. The roles listed are things like "Journalist", "Media/Photographer", "Organizer", "Instigator", "Unknown", "N/A", etc
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Re:US Government Tracking Journalists and Immigration Advocates by rosser on Thursday March 07, 2019 @01:33PM (#19330701)
From The Fine Article:

> To view the documents, click here or the link below.

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