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Aaron Swartz FBI Files: Read Them Here

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Once-classified materials show how the agency tracked the Internet activist.

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Swartz in Dec. 2012. (ThoughtWorks/AP)

Firedoglake blogger Daniel Wright has obtained Aaron Swartz's FBI file following his suicide last month. The FBI declassifies investigations if the subject of the investigation dies.

The documents show the FBI was monitoring Swartz on Twitter, Facebook, and his LinkedIn accounts after he was suspected of downloading millions of records from...

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