New documents prove U.S. Army actively targeted leftist protesters, group says
Source: Raw Story
New documents prove U.S. Army actively targeted leftist protesters, group says
By Scott Kaufman
Monday, February 24, 2014 13:49 EST
New records obtained by the Defending Dissent Foundation prove that the United States Army used a multi-agency spy network to gather intelligence on nonviolent, antiwar protesters and to disseminate their findings to both the FBI and local police departments.
Activists filed a lawsuit against Thomas Rudd and John Towery Panagacos v. Towery in 2007, alleging that the U.S. Army had directed operatives to infiltrate and collect information about the activist movement in the Washington area.
According to the newly released documents, the U.S. Army paid Towery, a Criminal Information and Systems Officer, to spy on the antiwar group Port Militarization Resistance (PMR), as well as the Students for a Democratic Society, the Industrial Workers of the World, and Iraq Veterans Against the War.
In an email from November 2007, Towery wrote to a number of people he had met at a Domestic Terrorism (DT) conference in Spokane, Washington that it would be a good idea to develop a leftist/anarchist mini-group for intel sharing and distro.
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/24/new-documents-prove-u-s-army-actively-targeted-leftist-protesters-group-says/
gopiscrap
(23,766 posts)when we were working with Lt. Ehren Watada and also during the Cindy Sheehan vigils, we felt we were being spied upon.
BlueEye
(449 posts)What sorts of indications did you have that you were being monitored?
gopiscrap
(23,766 posts)for one the FBI admitted that "observed" the Cindy Sheehan vigil.
Android3.14
(5,402 posts)What did you see or experience that gave rise to that suspicion?
ForgoTheConsequence
(4,869 posts)Can't wait to hear the NSA loving, neoconservative underground posters defend this.
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)L0oniX
(31,493 posts)blackspade
(10,056 posts)Criminals will do anything to support the empire.