Meet the Former Punk Rocker Who Can Liberate Your FBI File

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Ryan Shapiro's technique is so effective at unburying sensitive documents, the feds are asking the courts to stop him.

—By Will Potter Nov. 13, 2013 - http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/11/foia-ryan-shapiro-fbi-files-lawsuit

Ryan Shapiro has just wrapped up a talk at Boston's Suffolk University Law School, and as usual he's surrounded by a gaggle of admirers. The crowd­, consisting of law students, academics, and activist types, is here for a panel discussion on the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, a 2006 law targeting activists whose protest actions lead to a "loss of profits" for industry. Shapiro, a 37-year-old Ph.D. student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, contributed a slideshow of newspaper headlines, posters, and government documents from as far back as the 1800s depicting animal advocates as a threat to national security. Now audience members want to know more about his dissertation and the archives he's using. But many have a personal request: Would Shapiro help them discover what's in their FBI files?

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1. good article to read. be interesting to see what happens with his case in a couple months