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FDA staffers sue agency over surveillance of personal e-mail

Tue, 01/31/2012 - 17:41 — Dave Culver
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Human Rights & Civil Liberties

Obama administration spying on FDA staffers critical of poor regulation that protected industry.

Ellen Nakashima and Lisa Rein, Washington (DC) Post

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The Food and Drug Administration secretly monitored the personal e-mail of a group of its own scientists and doctors after they warned Congress that the agency was approving medical devices that they believed posed unacceptable risks to patients, government documents show.

The surveillance — detailed in e-mails and memos unearthed by six of the scientists and doctors, who filed a lawsuit against the FDA in U.S. District Court in Washington last week — took place over two years as the plaintiffs accessed their personal Gmail accounts from government computers.

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