Inspector General Criticism Doesn't Faze FBI Raids on Midwestern Anti-war Activists

[G_j]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/coleen-rowley/inspector-general-critici_b_738932.html

Inspector General Criticism Doesn't Faze FBI Raids on Midwestern Anti-war Activists

By Coleen Rowley

The war on dissent, rather than terrorism, continued full steam with FBI SWAT teams breaking down doors at 7 am Friday (Sept 24) morning and raiding the homes of several anti-war leaders and activists in Minneapolis, Chicago and possibly a couple other Midwest cities. Members of the FBI's "Joint Terrorism Task Force" spent a few hours at each Minneapolis residence, seizing personal photographs and papers, computers and cell phones as well as serving Federal Grand Jury subpoenas on the various activists.

Obviously the scathing review of post 9-11 FBI "terrorism investigations" targeting various peace and social justice groups completed by the Department of Justice Inspector General (IG) and just issued four days ago gave no pause to the FBI to reflect before continuing to do more of the same. Nor did accompanying media revelations about the FBI having improperly conducted surveillances of an antiwar rally in Pittsburgh; the Catholic Worker peace magazine; a Quaker activist, the Thomas Merton Center in Pittsburgh, of members of the environmental group Greenpeace and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and of a small student group of anti-war activists in Iowa City, Iowa who were targeted for 9 months in 2008.

National news stories revealed that in one of the investigations, FBI Director Robert Mueller inadvertently providing a fabricated justification for the surveillance of an antiwar rally. From The Boston Globe's article "Red-Baiting, Circa 2002 - 2006":

The Justice Department's Inspector General report released this week pulled few punches in admonishing the FBI for targeting anti-war groups and advocacy organizations with no apparent justification, and for placing non-violent activists in those groups on terrorist watch lists. The report chastised the bureau for having a "weak'' rationale for some of its investigations; investigating where there was "little indication of any possible federal crimes''; and extending "the duration of investigations involving advocacy groups or their members without adequate basis.'' The agency was also taken to task for improperly retaining information about the targeted groups in its files and for classifying investigations of peace groups "under its 'Acts of Terrorism' classification.''

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[Bitwit1234]

1. Since the tea bags are urging violence and they are a front

for conservative groups wanting to take over the government why is Mueller targeting them. Targeting people who want peace as opposed to those urging hate and overthrowing the government. Why is Mueller still in charge of the FBI. Lets start a campaign to get rid of him.

[3waygeek]

2. You can't go after the right-wing nutters...

they might shoot back. Target the peaceniks, and no one gets hurt.

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. I think they would have more success in disrupting organizations that

destabilize America if they were to break down the doors of the Chamber of Commerces across this nation.

[KG]

4. so glad that last RW fascist govt was voted out.

:eyes:

[Octafish]

5. Throw in Cass Sunstein's desire to infiltrate conspiracy theorists who don't by govt's 9-11 story...

...and we've got a one-way form of transparancy for the Secret Government and none from our side.

http://rawstory.com/2010/01/obama-staffer-infiltration-911-groups

[Dawson Leery]

6. Cass Sunstein: The Robert Bork of Democrats.

[G_j]

7. wow!

I missed that. Harvard didn't do this guy much good.
He's crazier than any of the groups he wants in infiltrate.
What next?