U.S. accused of spying on those who disagree with Bush policies

[dogday]

WASHINGTON - While the White House defended domestic surveillance as a safeguard against terrorism, a Florida peace activist and several Democrats in Congress accused the Bush administration on Friday of spying on Americans who disagree with President Bush's policies.

Richard Hersh, of Boca Raton, Fla., director of Truth Project Inc. of Palm Beach County, told an ad hoc panel of House Democrats that his group and others in South Florida have been infiltrated and spied upon despite having no connections to terrorists.

"Agents rummaged through the trash, snooped into e-mails, packed Web sites and listened in on phone conversations," Hersh charged. "We know that address books and activist meeting lists have disappeared."

The Truth Project gained national attention when NBC News reported last month that it was described as a "credible threat" in a database of suspicious activity compiled by the Pentagon's Talon program. The listing cited the group's gathering a year ago at a Quaker meeting house in Lake Worth, Fla., to talk about ways to counter military recruitment at high schools.


http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/politics/13675006.htm

[EFerrari]

1. kick

[helderheid]

2. k & r!

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. remember this when talking to people

who believe Bush only spies on al Qaeda. Tell them al Quaker isn't the same thing.

[helderheid]

4. al Quaker - GOOD ONE!

:yourock:

[HysteryDiagnosis]

7. Reading error in WH confuses Al Qaida with Al Quaker... simple

typo leads to warrantless searches on law abiding American citizens who just plain think wrong according to some fascist sources.

[EVDebs]

14. The Quaker website that has them terrified !

Friends Committee on National Legislation

"If the U.S. is ultimately leaving Iraq, why is the military building 'permanent' bases?"
http://www.fcnl.org/iraq/bases.htm

be sure to point and click on the base sites.

Now compare that map with Oil Map #1 at
http://www.judicialwatch.org/071703.c_.shtml

and you can see why they are terrified.

[Maru Kitteh]

5. I hope they brought forth proof

Or alternately I hope our whistleblowers have proof of similar activities.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

6. This article would make an excellent flyer.... this needs to be

passed around and I expect to see it on Keith O's show tonight, I better see it on there.

We are paying good tax money to spy on, infiltrate into and generally remove the civil rights of AMERICAN CITIZENS WHO KNOW THE TRUTH. If that's a crime, count me in as well. This had better be on the front page of some very important publications tomorrow morning.

"The fact is, the Truth Project may have a philosophy that is adverse to the political philosophy and goals of the president of the United States. And as a result of that different philosophy, the president and the secretary of defense ordered that your group be spied upon."


"There should not be a single American who today remains confident that it couldn't happen to them."

SCREW THESE MoFo's and the Diebold machines they rode into town on.... they have placed themselves illegally so above the law and above the constitution of the United States, they are TRAITORS to "their own people".

ON EDIT: Kicked and recommended....

[ProfessorGAC]

9. The Sound Bite Could Be. . .

. . ."Why do THEY hate america and why do they think treason is OK?"
The Professor

[caligirl]

8. "credible threat" was also done to UCSC students< April 5 protest

against military rcruiters presence on campus at a job fair. Feinstein is trying to get Rummy to respond by Jan 30 to this. Cong Barr of SC also is trying toget some answers.

[Imagevision]

10. Bush wiretaps must be settled in court!

[dogday]

11. My favorite line in this article.....

"There should not be a single American who today remains confident that it couldn't happen to them."

[EVDebs]

12. Raging Grannies and CodePink , oooooh DOD terror suspects !

Be On Guard for Raging Grannies
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0706-23.htm

[PWRinNY]

13. Spying on Founding Fathers too?

OK so I'd like to know how they can spy on our Founding Fathers, as they've passed away so long ago. Evidence indicates our Founding Fathers were also opposed to Bush admin policies. What are they going to do, dig them up from their graves and spy on their ashes?

Better yet, spy on Americans who keep our Founding Fathers' wishes, hopes, and dreams alive. Spy on those of us who would save OUR America. All I can hope is that they learn something about our great country by spying on us, grow a conscience, and feel shame at themselves, with the realization they're tearing our country apart.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

15. Comparison up front and center.....

[NMDemDist2]

16. i have a customer who is sweet and not very political (but I'm working on

her) :rofl:

so anyway, the wiretapping thing came up (she asks DH and I about stuff she hears on the news) and we mentioned *co wiretapped the Quakers

"the QUAKERS??? what were they doing?" she asked

so we told her

she wrote down 1010AM and is gonna get an earful of Randi Rhodes on her way home......

should be interesting :bounce:

[Imagevision]

17. With Rove & Cheney's input what's to stop them from spying on anybody

especially anti-war groups but they can't divuldge who've they spied on because of the ever presense of the national security claims which is pure poppy-cock!

[mom cat]

18. Hersh was great in the hearings.