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Vast F.D.A. Effort Tracked E-Mails of Its Scientists

Posted on July 16, 2012July 2, 2025 by Dissent

Let’s start the work week with a news story on workplace surveillance. Eric Lichtblau and Scott Shane report:

A wide-ranging surveillance operation by the Food and Drug Administration against a group of its own scientists used an enemies list of sorts as it secretly captured thousands of e-mails that the disgruntled scientists sent privately to members of Congress, lawyers, labor officials, journalists and even President Obama, previously undisclosed records show.

Read more on The New York Times.

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