Kucinich asks Dept of Homeland Security to investigate opponent

Kucinich asks feds to investigate Cimperman; Updated with video

http://blog.cleveland.com/openers/2008/01/kucinich_asks_feds_to_investig.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd-8nwj7GWY&eurl=http://blog.cleveland.com/openers/2008/01/kucinich_asks_feds_to_investig.html


Cleveland Councilman Joe Cimperman hoped to get noticed by showing up with a camera-toting campaign worker two weeks ago at the Lakewood congressional office of his rival, Rep. Dennis Kucinich.

Instead, Cimperman got the unwanted attention of federal authorities, who questioned him this week about the visit.

Kucinich, who is trying to defend his seat against Cimperman and three other Democrats in the March 4 primary, asked a federal agency to investigate the camera stunt, saying it broke federal law.

Kucinich made the request after Cimperman delivered a "missing" poster to his office on Jan. 3. Cimperman was mocking Kucinich for campaigning for president around the country.

He tacked posters featuring pictures of Kucinich to poles near his Detroit Avenue office. They said: "Last seen: Iowa and New Hampshire - anywhere but Northeast Ohio."
Cimperman entered Kucinich's office while a campaign worker taped him dropping off one of the posters at the front desk.
"I walked in, asked for Dennis, dropped off the poster and walked out, all in one big motion," Cimperman said. "I was polite and in there 20 seconds." ...

..."The people must have some assurances that their government does not allow individuals to enter the premises and film them while they are seeking federal assistance," Kucinich's office wrote in a letter to the Federal Protective Service. An agency under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, it has law enforcement jurisdiction over government offices.

Cimperman said a federal agent from Homeland Security interviewed him and his campaign staff on Tuesday and warned him that cameras are not allowed in the government offices without permission. Cimperman described Kucinich's reaction to his Jan. 3 visit as "an absurd waste of taxpayers' dollars."

"The Department of Homeland Security has plenty to do without wasting time talking to me," he said.
Cimperman posted a video of his visit on the Internet. No constituents are seen in the video.
In the past, Kucinich has called on the government to rein in its police powers.

In a 2006 speech opposing the reauthorization of the USA Patriot Act, which gives the government broad powers to investigate suspected terrorists, Kucinich railed against government intrusion. "History tells us that unchecked police powers with little or no oversight will be abused and the citizens will be harmed," he said. "I am for police function that protects citizens of this great nation, not a police function that is used to terrorize them."

Odd.

Nope...NOT seen in Iowa :shrug:

"It's a place of anxious, serious faces—like you see at NASA's Mission Control right before a launch. People from different agencies and companies man the phones and computers 24/7 as queries come in from checkpoints across the country and world—all with one question: Do I have a known or appropriately suspected terrorist on my hands? That's precisely what the TSC can tell them. The TSC Director puts it this way: "We're here to get information to the people who can stop dangerous types from entering the U.S....and who can identify dangerous types who are already on our streets and arrest them.”


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that's where he belongs