FBI Serves Terrorism Warrants in Minn., Chicago; Anti-War Movement Leaders Targeted

[FrankRep]

FBI serves terrorism warrants in Minn., Chicago (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39344988)


Associated Press
Sept 24, 2010


The FBI says it's searched eight homes in Minnesota and Chicago in a terrorism investigation. One subject says the FBI is targeting leaders of the anti-war movement.

FBI spokesman Steve Warfield tells The Associated Press six warrants in Minneapolis and two in Chicago were served Friday. Warfield says the FBI is seeking "evidence relating to activities concerning the material support of terrorism."

Minneapolis anti-war activist Mick Kelley says his home was searched. He tells the AP he believes the FBI is "harassing anti-war organizers" who opposed U.S. intervention in the Middle East and Latin America.

Warfield wouldn't comment on whose homes were searched. But he says no immediate arrests are expected and there's no "imminent threat to the community."


SOURCE:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39344988

[FrankRep]

A report by the Justice Department’s Inspector General blasted the Federal Bureau of Investigation for lying and spying on anti-war activists, animal-rights groups and environmentalists, calling the improper “terror” investigations unreasonable and inconsistent with FBI policy. by Alex Newman


DOJ Inspector General Slams FBI for Spying on Anti-war Groups, Lying (http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/crime/4667-feds-slammed-for-spying-on-anti-war-groups-lying)


Alex Newman | The New American (http://www.thenewamerican.com/)
22 September 2010


A report (http://www.justice.gov/oig/special/s1009r.pdf) by the Justice Department’s Inspector General blasted the Federal Bureau of Investigation for lying and spying on anti-war activists, animal-rights groups, and environmentalists, calling the improper “terror” investigations "unreasonable and inconsistent with FBI policy."

Among those targeted were the anti-war Thomas Merton Center, the Religious Society of Friends (the Quakers), the Catholic Worker, Greenpeace, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), and an individual Quaker peace activist. According to the Inspector General, there was "little or no basis" for the investigations.

The phony probes resulted in innocent people being placed on the infamous “terror watch list” and in FBI boss Robert Muller providing "inaccurate and misleading information" to Congress, the report stated. The amount of tax money wasted, while not specifically addressed in the report, must have been enormous. Numerous policies were also violated by the FBI, and Inspector General Glenn Fine called the FBI's tactics “troubling.”

The Inspector General’s office reviewed 8,000 pages of FBI documents from 2001 to 2006 related to the groups to determine whether the investigations were proper, were initiated owing to protected First Amendment activities, and for several other purposes. “From this broad review we identified particular FBI investigations and other activities that potentially implicated the First Amendment activities of the groups or their members,” explained the report, entitled "A Review of the FBI's Investigations of Certain Domestic Advocacy Groups (http://www.justice.gov/oig/special/s1009r.pdf)."
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Full Story:
http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/crime/4667-feds-slammed-for-spying-on-anti-war-groups-lying

[Aratus]

OBAMA = LBJ + RMN ---? via deja vu all over again?
in the late 1960s when MLK spoke out against LBJ's war...
he once again had the FBI totally all over him...

[oyarde]

Eight homes were searched for terror matl.'s and no arrests were made . Meaning they found nothing . Who signed the warrants and where did the fbi get the bad information from ?

[oyarde]

OBAMA = LBJ + RMN ---? via deja vu all over again?
in the late 1960s when MLK spoke out against LBJ's war...
he once again had the FBI totally all over him...

I have been thinking for some time that Obama IS LBJ .

[phill4paul]

Who signed the warrants and where did the fbi get the bad information from ?

And until people are held accountable this will continue. I have never believed in "anonymous" tips. You got something to say. Put your name to it.

[oyarde]

And until people are held accountable this will continue. I have never believed in "anonymous" tips. You got something to say. Put your name to it.

Yes .

[pcosmar]

Movement Leaders Targeted

Leaderless Resistance
:cool:

[HOLLYWOOD]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100924/us_nm/us_usa_security_searches

http://www.startribune.com/local/103716104.html?elr=KArksUUUycaEacyU


FBI raids homes of several Twin Cities war protesters
Search warrants were executed on six addresses in Minneapolis and at two addresses in Chicago.

By RANDY FURST (http://www.startribune.com/bios/10644886.html) and ABBY SIMONS (http://www.startribune.com/bios/19363479.html), Star Tribune September 24, 2010 - 3:54 PM

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FBI serves terrorism warrants in Minn., Chicago (http://www.startribune.com/local/103722074.html?elr=KArks:DCiUHc3E7_V_nDaycUiacyKUU r)

The homes of five Twin Cities activists, including three prominent leaders of the Twin Cities antiwar movement, were raided Friday by the FBI in what an agency spokesman described as an "investigation into activities concerning the material support of terrorism." The office of an antiwar organization also was reportedly raided.
An FBI spokesman Steve Warfield confirmed that warrants were issued on six Minneapolis addresses this morning.
Among the homes raided were the apartments of Jessica Sundin, who was a principal leader of the mass antiwar march of 10,000 on the opening day of the Republican National Convention two years ago, and Mick Kelly, who was prominent in that protest and among those who announced plans to march on the Democratic National Convention in Minneapolis, if the city is selected to host it in 2012. Neither has been arrested.
Kelly said in an interview this morning he had "absolutely not" been involved in illegal activities.

A raid was also conducted on the home of Meredith Aby, another local antiwar leader who was frequently the spokeswoman for the march on the GOP convention. A fourth raid took place at the home of Tracy Molm, a leading activist in Students for a Democratic Society, an organization at the University of Minnesota, and a fifth warrant was executed on the upper duplex residence of Anh Pham, an antiwar activist.
Supporters of the protest leaders had gathered on the sidewalks outside some of the residences where the raids occurred.
The offices of the Anti-War Committee, a local organization that has sponsored many of the peace protests in the Twin Cities over the last decade, was also raided by the FBI, activists and attorneys said.

Ted Dooley, an attorney, said he had reviewed the search warrant issued in the raid on Kelly's apartment. "It's a probe into the political beliefs of American citizens and to any organization anywhere that opposes the American imperial design," he said.

[Aratus]

shades of the palmer raids under woodrow wilson...?