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Feds Got Warrants to Use Fake Cell Towers to Hunt Down Don Lemon’s Producer

Wired · Dhruv Mehrotra · last updated

Investigators also sought permission to use an invasive surveillance tool called a cell-site simulators against journalist Georgia Fort and a Minnesota state Senate candidate.

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