The Thin Line Between Harassment and Repression Max Blumenthal, a US reporter, is fighting back after border patrol agents seized his cell phones at Dulles airport in Virginia.
This incident has all the makings of a modern day Kafkaesque nightmare, but it goes beyond mere bureaucratic bungling or harassment – it's a clear attempt to intimidate and silence a journalist whose reporting doesn't align with the Trump administration's interests.
Blumenthal had just returned from a trip to Iran, where he was covering the funeral of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.