Watchdog decides FBI allowed to impersonate journalists

Published September 15, 2016 9:34pm ET



The FBI can lawfully impersonate journalists to trick suspects in investigations, the agency’s inspector general said in a Thursday opinion, nearly a decade after officials impersonated an editor at the Associated Press in order to hunt down a 15-year-old high school student.

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