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

[Al Kagan]

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>Allow Unchecked Domestic Spying!
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>I wasn't sure if you were on this list or not, but just in case...
>Nikki
>
>>===== Original Message From action at dcaclu.org =====
>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
Africana Unit, Room 328
University of Illinois Library
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