A report from the Department of Homeland Security about border searches of electronic devices says a traveler may be searched "because he is the subject of, or person-of-interest-in, an ongoing law enforcement investigation and was flagged by a law enforcement 'lookout' " in the Immigration and Customs Enforcement computer system.
In what it called an "ongoing law enforcement operation," the United States Coast Guard stopped and boarded a huge container ship off the coast of New Jersey last Saturday.
The Commissioner may not provide under subsection (a) information, photographs, or samples to a person described in subsection (b) if providing such information, photographs, or samples would compromise an ongoing law enforcement investigation or national security.
In a statement to TechCrunch, Twitter stated only that "This is an ongoing law enforcement investigation.
The website seizures were part "Operation Fake Sweep," one of several phases of "Operation In Our Sites," an ongoing law enforcement initiative targeting counterfeiting and piracy on the Internet.
Dyn said it cannot reveal details about the source of the attack or the identity of the attackers because of an ongoing law enforcement investigation.
However, if I had been linked in any way to an ongoing law enforcement investigation, I'd never have been accepted even as an intern, and certainly would never have been given the lowest possible security clearance.
"AURA has been cooperating with an ongoing law enforcement investigation of criminal activity that occurred at Sacramento Peak," an AURA spokeswoman, which oversees the observatory, told VICE News in a statement.
"The FBI communicated to us that we should follow our standard practice, which is to put our internal review on hold while there is an ongoing law enforcement investigation," State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau told reporters on Friday.
"We also know that ongoing enforcement pressure forces dealers to operate in inefficient ways, greatly increasing their costs of operation and, hence, increase the final retail price.
