Intercept reporter Cora Currier received leaked copies of the FBI's confidential rulebooks.
Sources
- The Breakthrough: Uncovering the FBI's Secret Rules (propublica.org)
- https://theintercept.com/2017/01/31/secret-rules-make-it-pretty-easy-for-the-fbi-to-spy-on-journalists-2/ (theintercept.com)
- https://theintercept.com/document/2017/01/31/domestic-investigations-and-operations-guide/ (theintercept.com)
- https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/11/06/pervasive-impunity-homeland-richard-beck/ (nybooks.com)
- https://freedom.press/issues/leaked-fbi-documents-reveal-secret-rules-for-spying-on-journalists-with-national-security-letters/ (freedom.press)
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