Columnist Marie Cocco writes today:
....UMC Pastor Raymond Payne (from Russell, Kentucky) and his wife, on an anniversary trip to Canada last October, were stopped, searched and questioned by Canadian border authorities who sought to find out just what the couple was doing crossing at Niagara Falls.
"They put me in what I can only describe as an interrogation room," Payne recalls. "Where was I from? Where was I born? Was I a citizen of the United States? They asked us the same sort of questions, over and over again."
The Canadians explained the stop was necessary because the FBI had opened a file on Payne in 2001. Payne is one of hundreds of individuals and groups now seeking to learn, through the Freedom of Information Act, what - if anything - the FBI's got on them.
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