{"id":1708,"date":"2006-03-16T14:04:04","date_gmt":"2006-03-16T21:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/spy-he-said\/"},"modified":"2006-03-17T12:46:29","modified_gmt":"2006-03-17T19:46:29","slug":"spy-he-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/spy-he-said\/","title":{"rendered":"Spy, He Said"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aclu.org\/safefree\/spying\/24528prs20060314.html\">ACLU Releases First Concrete Evidence of FBI Spying Based Solely on Groups\u2019 Anti-War Views<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Pennsylvania today released new evidence that <strong>the Federal Bureau of Investigation is conducting investigations into a political organizations based solely on its anti-war views<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Two documents released today reveal that the FBI investigated gatherings of the Thomas Merton Center for Peace &#038; Justice just because the organization opposed the war in Iraq.  Although previously disclosed documents show that the FBI is retaining files on anti-war groups, these documents are the first to show conclusively that the rationale for FBI targeting is the group&#8217;s opposition to the war. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The FBI memo points out that the Merton Center \u201cis a <em>left-wing<\/em> organization advocating, among many political causes, pacifism.\u201d <span class=\"mine\">[mjh: Gasp! Oh, god, not <em>pacifism!<\/em>]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cAll over the country we see the FBI monitoring and keeping files on Americans exercising their First Amendment rights to free expression,\u201d<\/strong> said Mary Catherine Roper, a staff attorney with the ACLU of Pennsylvania.  \u201cThese documents show that Americans are not safe from secret government surveillance, even when they are handing out flyers in the town square \u2013 an activity clearly protected by the Constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACLU Releases First Concrete Evidence of FBI Spying Based Solely on Groups\u2019 Anti-War Views The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Pennsylvania today released new evidence that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is conducting investigations into a political organizations based solely on its anti-war views. Two documents released today reveal that the FBI &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/spy-he-said\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spy, He Said<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}