The Food and Drug Administration secretly monitored the personal email of its own scientists and doctors after they warned Congress the agency was approving medical devices posing unacceptable risks to patients, the Washington Post reports. The surveillance was detailed in emails and memos unearthed by six of the scientists and doctors, who filed a lawsuit against the FDA in U.S. District Court in Washington last week. "Who would have thought that they would have the nerve to be monitoring my communications to Congress?" said plaintiff Robert C. Smith, a former radiology professor who reviewed devices at the FDA until his contract was not renewed in July 2010.
