2013 filed a freedom of the press lawsuit for full FBI records on Antiwar.com, Eric Garris and Justin Raimondo. The documents received in November 2013 indicated that the FBI in San Francisco, and later in Newark, New Jersey, began monitoring the site after Eric Garris passed along to the FBI a threat to hack the Antiwar.com website. The FBI mistakenly took this as an actual threat against its own website and began monitoring Antiwar.com and its editors. Eric Garris demanded the FBI correct its file. In September 2019, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the FBI must delete its memo documenting Garris' First Amendment activities. In 2013, Eric Garris, Justin Raimondo, and Antiwar.com began a lawsuit against the FBI for incorrectly identifying Garris as a national security "threat," and conducting an investigation into Antiwar.com as a potential threat. The lawsuit was conducted by the American Civil Liberties Union. One issue was that the FBI had incorrectly naming Garris as threatening to hack the FBI website (after Garris reported a threat he received against Antiwar.com). The federal court ordered the FBI to amend their files and issue a correction to Garris. In 2017, the court ordered the FBI to give Antiwar.com access to all the records of the investigation without redaction and to pay $300,000 to the ACLU lawyers. Antiwar.com lost the part of the case that claimed violations of the Privacy Act by the FBI. Antiwar.com and the ACLU appealed the Privacy Act claim and the appeal went to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. In 2019, the 9th Circuit three-judge panel unanimously ruled against the FBI and order them to expunge all records from the investigation. Civil Liberties groups like the ACLU and the Electronic Frontier Foundation hailed the ruling as a victory for privacy rights of journalists and activists. Personnel Notable site personnel have included: Justin Raimondo (1951–2019), founder and editorial director Eric Garris, founder, webmaster, and managing editor Scott Horton (born 1976), assistant editor Notable contributors Featured writers include: Praful Bidwai Alan Bock Ivan Eland Philip Giraldi Ran HaCohen David R. Henderson Justin Raimondo Michael Scheuer George Szamuely The site syndicates columns and op-eds by such authors as: Pat Buchanan Kevin Carson Noam Chomsky Alexander Cockburn Juan Cole Jonathan Cook Reese Erlich Robert Fisk Kathy Kelly Jack Matlock William Lind Ron Paul John Pilger Gareth Porter Charley Reese Paul Craig Roberts Cindy Sheehan Norman Solomon