ACLU: News in the Illegal Domestic Spying Cases
The illegal domestic spying by the US government on its own citizens is an insidious octopus, its slimy tentacles reaching far and wide, groping into peace groups, animal rights groups, Quakers, private lives -- all of them scrutinized under invasive, obsidian eyes.Recent documents obtained by the ACLU are the FBI Spy Files, which underlines anti-war and peace groups, namely the Thomas Merton Center (TMC). The FBI document I read says that the "..Thomas Merton Center (TMC).... is a left-wing organization advocating, among many political causes, pacifism..."
<<View these documents labelled"FBI Spy Files - Newest Release".
Also read this: ACLU Releases First Concrete Evidence of FBI Spying Based Solely on Groups’ Anti-War Views (3/14/2006)
Excerpted from: The Goverment is Spying on Americans
Documents obtained by the ACLU under the Freedom of Information Act reveal that the FBI is using its Joint Terrorism Task Forces to gather extensive information about peaceful organizations. Recently, President Bush acknowledged giving explicit and secret authorization for warrantless electronic eavesdropping and physical searches by the National Security Agency. Now, there is reason to believe that the Pentagon, too, is illegally gathering and sharing private and protected information.
The actions of the president, his administration, and these agencies are part of a broad pattern of disregard for the rule of law in the name of national security. The ACLU is calling for investigations and full disclosure of records to determine if oaths of office were broken or federal laws violated.
Pentagon
The ACLU has filed a FOIA request to uncover who is being spied on by the Pentagon. News reports have revealed the Pentagon is collecting information in a secret database on peace groups and law-abiding Americans who have attended anti-war protests.
Read more here.
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