FBI's actions ".despicable," he said. "It's certainly undemocratic."

digging thru my old stuff......found this..


Just a reminder that Liberty Requires Eternal vigilance.
Especially now that the PNAC cabal has siezed power.



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June 10, 2002 SF Chronicle -

quote by University of California's former President, now
91 years old :

...Kerr said he was disturbed by the FBI's apparently having taken sides against him because of his political views.

"I think it's despicable," he said. "It's certainly undemocratic. It's the kind of thing you would expect more from the intelligence agencies of Russia than you would from the U.S."



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http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/06/10/MN64831.DTL

Monday, June 10, 2002
San Francisco Chronicle

Ex-UC chief calls FBI actions despicable
Clark Kerr reacts to Chronicle report on bureau misdeeds

Seth Rosenfeld, Chronicle Staff Writer Monday, June 10, 2002



Clark Kerr, ousted from his job as president of the University of California following student protests in the 1960s, says he is greatly disturbed by documents revealing that the FBI campaigned to get him fired.

"I always had a high opinion of the FBI, so it came to me as quite a shock that they would step outside their boundaries the way they did," Kerr said Sunday in an interview at his El Cerrito home. "I think they did me some damage."

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"What bothers me is that the FBI would want to go so far outside its proper jurisdiction and get involved in the internal affairs of the university," Kerr said.

The Chronicle's report was based on FBI records obtained after a 17-year legal battle under the Freedom of Information Act. The FBI refused to turn over many records on the grounds that they concerned law enforcement, but five federal judges found that many of the FBI's activities were unlawful and ordered more than 200,000 pages of the files released.
An FBI spokesman had previously declined to comment on The Chronicle story. ...

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"Then the FBI came in and added some fuel to the flames," he said. "What happened might have happened anyway, but it was more likely with FBI support."

Kerr said the FBI's secretly giving the late regent Pauley reports about liberal faculty, students and regents harmed the university's integrity.
"Organizations are based on trust, and when you start passing around private, derogatory information, it's destructive of trust," Kerr said in other remarks to The Chronicle. "It's harmful to the university to have one member of the board be provided derogatory information on others."

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