Vice News has announced that it is suing the FBI in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit over documents surrounding the 2016 Clinton and Trump campaigns.

Vice News said it filed the joint lawsuit Tuesday morning with Ryan Shapiro, a doctoral candidate at MIT, after filing more than 50 FOIA requests with the FBI for information it did not disclose.

Vice's official complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colombia says it "seeks public disclosure of specified government records to make sense of the pivotal role of the FBI, as well as of other agencies, perhaps in the most controversial presidential election in modern U.S. history."

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Vice says it asked for records on: internal discontent at the FBI over the investigations into Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonDemocratic groups using Bloomberg money to launch M in Spanish language ads in Florida The Hill's Campaign Report: Presidential polls tighten weeks out from Election Day More than 50 Latino faith leaders endorse Biden MORE; leaks of information from the FBI to media outlets; FBI communication with Breitbart News and its former chairman, Steve Bannon, now top adviser to President-elect Donald Trump Donald John TrumpBiden on Trump's refusal to commit to peaceful transfer of power: 'What country are we in?' Romney: 'Unthinkable and unacceptable' to not commit to peaceful transition of power Two Louisville police officers shot amid Breonna Taylor grand jury protests MORE; and information on white nationalist Richard Spencer and the "alt-right."

Other information requested included records on Trump's former campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, Fox News, Sean Hannity, Rudy Giuliani and Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone.



Vice News said the FBI responded to some of Vice's previous information requests to say they could not release information because it could affect investigations or work being done by the agency.



"The nature of your request implicates investigative records the FBI may or may not compile pursuant to its broad criminal and national security investigative missions and functions," an FBI letter sent to Vice after the election said. "Accordingly, the FBI cannot confirm or deny the existence of any such records about your subject as the mere acknowledgment of such records existence or nonexistence would in and of itself trigger foreseeable harm to agency interests."



FBI Director James Comey has come under fire for his handling of the agency's probe of Clinton's private email server. Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid Harry Mason ReidThe Supreme Court vacancy — yet another congressional food fight Trump seeks to turn around campaign with Supreme Court fight On The Trail: Battle over Ginsburg replacement threatens to break Senate MORE (Nev.) said earlier this week that Clinton would have won the election if it weren't for Comey's letter letter to lawmakers less than three weeks before Election Day stating that the FBI was looking into potential new evidence in the case.