FOIA litigation is required to document state surveillance.

Evidence

Assia Boundaoui filed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and won a court case compelling the FBI to release information on Operation Vulgar Betrayal. … It is likely that South Asians were also being surveilled through programs like Operation Vulgar Betrayal. We will not know the full extent of state surveillance of Arabs, Muslims, and South Asians until more FOIA requests are filed. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 1295

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to earlier claims about Operation Vulgar Betrayal decimating Brooklyn’s Pakistani community and to the reader’s MOC thread on what concrete anti-coupling tactics activism can take — contesting the state’s own archive through FOIA as method. — connects to: FOIA allows individuals to sue for information when records are withheld. — David E Pozen; Michael Schudson, Troubling Transparency- The History and…, 1041; Litigation forced disclosure of industries’ internal harm documents — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1617; A FOIA request must comply with the agency’s published rules stating the time, place, fees, and procedures to be followed. — The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA): A Legal Overview
• SEED: Angle: the FOIA lawsuit as an anti-surveillance tactic that forces the enemy-making machine to expose its own machinery — documentary filmmaker as archive-contester.

Broader Connections

• FOIA allows individuals to sue for information when records are withheld. #expands (0.90) — David E Pozen; Michael Schudson, Troubling Transparency- The History and…, 1041
• Litigation forced disclosure of industries’ internal harm documents #exemplifies (0.75) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1617