WIRED: DHS Ousts CBP Privacy Officers Who Questioned ‘Illegal’ Orders

Jeramie Scott, senior counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, says that FOIA requires narrow redactions over wholesale secrecy and that withholding the records outright would allow DHS to evade public scrutiny of its expanding surveillance operations.

“Career DHS Privacy officials were right to protest such a blanket move towards secrecy,” he says.

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