{"id":2278,"date":"2005-05-18T15:21:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-18T15:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2278"},"modified":"2018-06-08T15:18:44","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T20:18:44","slug":"protested-innocence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/18\/protested-innocence\/","title":{"rendered":"Protested Innocence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Headline on CNN:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/LAW\/05\/18\/fbi.aclu.ap\/index.html\" target=\"_new\">Groups suing FBI over monitoring of activities<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Five civil rights, animal rights and environmental groups are joining together to sue the FBI to release records about monitoring of anti-war and other political activities by federal agents assigned to counterterrorism duties.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The FBI might monitor political groups under the trumped-up &#8220;counterterrorism&#8221; excuse.  Wait a minute, which groups are suing?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The American Civil Liberties Union said the decision to file a lawsuit Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Washington came after the FBI ignored Freedom of Information Act requests for the documents. The other organizations involved are the American-Arab Anti-discrimination Committee, Greenpeace, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and United for Peace and Justice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So we&#8217;ve got Arab groups, animal rights groups, and environmental groups.  Groups that might be connected to rogue organizations that <i>actually commit terrorist acts on American soil<\/i>?  Sounds like the groups the FBI should monitor in the name of counterterrorism.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re not talking about the Boy Scouts of America, the Society of Technical Communications, or the United Auto Workers.  And if a group called Prepared Youth of America or Tech Writers for Justice started setting fires to motels or IT companies that have crappy documentation, I wouldn&#8217;t mind the FBI sniffing around them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Headline on CNN: Groups suing FBI over monitoring of activities: Five civil rights, animal rights and environmental groups are joining together to sue the FBI to release records about monitoring of anti-war and other political activities by federal agents assigned to counterterrorism duties. The FBI might monitor political groups under the trumped-up &#8220;counterterrorism&#8221; excuse. Wait [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20090,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278\/revisions\/20090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}