FBI gathered ‘purely political intel’ on war critics.
“A secret FBI intelligence unit helped detain a group of war protesters in a downtown Washington parking garage in April 2002 and interrogated some of them on videotape about their political and religious beliefs, newly uncovered documents and interviews show…The revelations, combined with protester accounts, provide the first public evidence that Washington-based FBI personnel used their intelligence-gathering powers in the District to collect purely political intelligence.”
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What a surprise… (sigh)
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:32 pmExcuse me there… are you a Jew? Where are your papers?
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:33 pmSieg heil! Sieg heil!
Imagine the calls for someone’s head had this happened in the Clinton Administration?
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:34 pm1806 activists were spied on and arrested in NY during the RNC in 04.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ayaq_rIhbZ0
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:34 pmClinton gathered purely political intel on war protesters too.
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:37 pmI’ll give this Administration one thing; they’re doing more than their share to keep every high-priced law firm in the phonebook in business.
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:37 pmCan you say “class action suit”?
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:38 pmSo liberals would have the FBI gather intel on terrorists? What would be the point of that? The majority of real Americans know that liberals are the real enemy.
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:38 pmThe FBI is replicating what it did to Martin Luther King Jr. and to those who protested the Vietnam War in the 1960s and 1970s. Michael Parenti discusses how nationalism disguised as patriotism can allow the government to take extreme liberties against the citizens of this country in his very relevant book Superpatriotism. What the FBI has done should make people ask: Who will watch the watchers?
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:38 pmbut…but…but…Clinton!!!
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:43 pm#8 Why don’t you ask the FBI instead of TP posters? Run along now.
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:44 pmAnybody with a college aged kid looking for a career path, constitutional law seems like it’s going to be a booming area for many years to come.
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:48 pmClinton gathered purely political intel on war protesters too.
Comment by Jake
lol
Hijacked again…
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:48 pmPatty:The majority of real Americans know that liberals are the real enemy. - - Pretty much renders the statement, “we’re fighting them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here,” rather pointless and foolish then, eh Patty? Pffffffft.
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:48 pmHow nixonian of them.
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:49 pmSo, Patrick, how many “enemy liberals” have you killed or captured?
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:49 pm#8 Why don’t you ask the FBI instead of TP posters? Run along now.
Comment by Laura Bush — April 3, 2007 @ 12:44 pm
You seem so sane around here. Is that why we haven’t seen much of you lately? Have you given up the facade of a happy marriage?
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:49 pmSo liberals would have the FBI gather intel on terrorists? What would be the point of that? The majority of real Americans know that liberals are the real enemy.
Comment by Patrick1 — April 3, 2007 @ 12:38 pm
So if liberals are the enemy why are we fighting in Iraq? Do you think we’re all posting from the green zone?
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:52 pmMy God!
If the liberals are the enemy then the ENEMY HAS ALREADY FOLLOWED US HOME FROM IRAQ!
Someone tell Chimpy and the Deadeye Dick that the US has been infiltrated.
-GSD
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:54 pmI wonder what war was going on during the Clinton administration that he had to collect political intelligence on its protesters?? Did I miss reading the New York Times that day?
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:55 pmMy peepee is teeny tiny!
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:55 pmThe “Clinton did it too” argument is over. We’re talking about now.
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:55 pmPaging Mr. Waxman, Mr. Leahy…
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:56 pm… and there are those who would put their heads in the sand and deny the Bush Crime Family ties to Nazi Germany. What was learned then being applied now? In a Kinder Gentler 10,000 points of Light kind of way?
Anyone think that Emperor Bush would treat the citizens of his own country this way?
April 3rd, 2007 at 1:04 pmBIG BROTHER IS WATCHING!!!! SHADES OF GEORGE ORWELL AND 1984(tm)!!!!! NAZI-FASCIST Bushland Uber Allies!!!!! SPRINGTIME FOR CHIMPya AND WE’RE NAZI BUT NICE, NICHT WAHR??????
April 3rd, 2007 at 1:08 pmAnother Intentional Abuse of the Patriot Act?? No!! Imagine that - that a president and administration would compose and subsequently make into law an act intentionally created to defraud the public of their civil & constitutional rights? That abuse was at it’s genesis is becoming pure fact - in fact, that’s precisely why it was concocted. We KNOW the illegal NSA activities had to do with Bush critics, war critics and enemies of the GOP. When this information reaches “critical mass”, there will be a critical mass revolt against this administration of “steal and conceal”.
April 3rd, 2007 at 1:56 pmWhat does it say about our country when the federal headquarters for the bureau of investigation is named after a cross dresser?
April 3rd, 2007 at 2:15 pmJake the Joke: “Clinton gathered purely political intel on war protesters too.”
Jake the Joke is a big Clinton booster. He uses Clinton as a benchmark for all presidential actions. If Clinton did it, it’s ok with Jake the Joke.
April 3rd, 2007 at 2:23 pmShane: “So if liberals are the enemy why are we fighting in Iraq?”
Oh, oh. Shane has employed “critical thinking.” How on earth is a cultist like Patrick supposed to respond to something like that!!!???
April 3rd, 2007 at 2:27 pmOh, oh. Shane has employed “critical thinking.†How on earth is a cultist like Patrick supposed to respond to something like that!!!???
Comment by Bluedog49
Your question is reality and logic based, therefore irrelevant to Patrick et al. They can just keep responding with the same non sequitors, premise-twisting illogic they always use. It’s so easy even a bushman can do it!
April 3rd, 2007 at 2:37 pmAnd some people think it’s perfectly ok to have Federal Prosecutors only pursue cases against political enemies of the President.
April 3rd, 2007 at 2:49 pm#
Clinton gathered purely political intel on war protesters too.
Comment by Jake — April 3, 2007 @ 12:37 pm
Hey, Jake. How about posting even a SINGLE link to attempt to prove this assertion? Otherwise, you are obviously just doing the obvious…spitting into the wind with “….but Clinton…”
April 3rd, 2007 at 9:14 pmPatsy-1
“The majority of real Americans know that liberals are the real enemy.”
Sounds awfully like Neal Bortz’s (SP?-like I care) constant harping the “Teachers’ Unions are more dangerous to America that the terrorists”.
Same illogic, same stupid result.
April 3rd, 2007 at 9:35 pmThe FBI has had a sordid history of taking law and bending it for political purposes……especially surrounding war support.
Look at the illegal use of deportation threatened against John Lennon (it worked effectively in that case too).
The Patriot Act is as rife for authoritarian abuse as deregulation made the profit reporting business rife for abuse.
It’s going to happen more without proper oversight.
April 3rd, 2007 at 10:27 pmSorry for not finishing the thought ….. the threat to Lennon was to stop outwardly protesting the Viet Nam War or be deported.
April 3rd, 2007 at 10:28 pm