"Why would the FBI collect almost 1,200 pages on a civil rights
organisation engaged in lawful activity? What justification could
there be, other than political surveillance of lawful First Amendment
activities?" asked ACLU Executive Director Anthony D. Romero.

A smaller batch of documents already turned over by the government
sheds light on the interest of FBI counterterrorism officials in
protests surrounding the Iraq war and last year's Republican National
Convention.

These documents are reportedly similar in tone to a bulletin
distributed among FBI counterterrorism officials in October 2003
analysing the activities of antiwar demonstrators who were then
planning protests in Washington and San Francisco.


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Wednesday, July 20, 2005

Spy Agency Targets Bush Critics

By William Fisher


NEW YORK (IPS) -

Those who remember recent history will not be surprised to learn that
the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has been amassing files on
the American Civil Liberties Union, Greenpeace and other critics of
the George W. Bush administration.

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Of course you're not surprised.

Harry