[Peace-discuss] Fwd: 01-24-02 -- ACLU Action Update: Oppose Attempts to Allow Unchecked Domestic Spying!

[Al Kagan]

>Delivered-To: akagan at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu
>Date: Thu, 24  Jan  2002 12:11:33 -0500
>From: action at dcaclu.org
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>Subject: 01-24-02 -- ACLU Action Update: Oppose Attempts to Allow 
>Unchecked Domestic Spying!
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>TO: ACLU Action Network Members
>FR: Jared Feuer, Internet Organizer
>DT: January 24, 2002
>
>Attorney General John Ashcroft is reportedly considering a plan to 
>relax restrictions on the FBI's ability to spy on domestic 
>organizations, a move that would loosen some of the most fundamental 
>protections against FBI misconduct and threaten constitutionally 
>protected advocacy of unpopular ideas and political dissent.
>
>The domestic spying restrictions were originally imposed in the 
>1970's after the country learned of the FBI's widespread, unchecked 
>and politically motivated domestic surveillance of such figures as 
>Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The FBI's campaign against Dr. King 
>included tactics such as planting bugs in hotel rooms and threats to 
>release the recordings, all done without evidence of criminal 
>activity.
>
>Current domestic guidelines already provide broad authority to 
>conduct investigations, but we must not allow the war on terrorism 
>to permanently expand unchecked government power.
>
>Take Action!  You can read more about this plan and send a FREE FAX 
>to Attorney General John Ashcroft from our action alert at:
>
>http://www.aclu.org/action/spy107.html
>
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Al Kagan
African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration
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