F.B.I. Goes Knocking for Political Troublemakers

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August 16, 2004
F.B.I. Goes Knocking for Political Troublemakers
By ERIC LICHTBLAU

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/16/politics/campaign/16fbi.html?hp=&pagewanted=print&position=

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 - The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been questioning political demonstrators across the country, and in rare cases even subpoenaing them, in an aggressive effort to forestall what officials say could be violent and disruptive protests at the Republican National Convention in New York.

F.B.I. officials are urging agents to canvass their communities for information about planned disruptions aimed at the convention and other coming political events, and they say they have developed a list of people who they think may have information about possible violence. They say the inquiries, which began last month before the Democratic convention in Boston, are focused solely on possible crimes, not on dissent, at major political events.

The unusual initiative comes after the Justice Department, in a previously undisclosed legal opinion, gave its blessing to controversial tactics used last year by the F.B.I in urging local police departments to report suspicious activity at political and antiwar demonstrations to counterterrorism squads. The F.B.I. bulletins that relayed the request for help detailed tactics used by demonstrators - everything from violent resistance to Internet fund-raising and recruitment.

In an internal complaint, an F.B.I. employee charged that the bulletins improperly blurred the line between lawfully protected speech and illegal activity. But the Justice Department's Office of Legal Policy, in a five-page internal analysis obtained by The New York Times, disagreed.

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1. bunch of stuff on this in GD, too

it was topic A for Washington Journal

[TacticalPeek]

2. Waste.

Waste the fibbies time, waste taxpayer money.

Waste fibbie resources, waste taxpayer money.

Post-911 means waste all the taxpayer money you want, in the name of "security".

Ashcroft should transfer his New Orleans fibbie whore task force to the NY convention, and bust the whore/protestor subversion.

[AmerDem]

3. scary stuff

It's like Nixon's administration all over again but hell so many in this administration were part of Tricky Dick's team!

They are right course to forming their new Fascist Empire, until Nov. 3 , I might add.