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Man Sues Feds After They Target Him for Photographing Rainbow Art

When 86-year-old photographer James Prigoff paused to photograph a natural gas storage tank in Boston ten years ago, he was simply doing what countless of tourists have done before. The colorful tank, painted with a rainbow-like design, is a popular photo

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Months later, an agent with a Joint Terrorism Task Force in Sacramento, knocked on the door of Prigoff’s California home to question him about his suspicious activity in Boston. Agents also questioned a neighbor.