Progressive Minds

Looks like the FBI conducted surveillance and intelligence-gathering on activist groups such as those involved in issues like the environment, poverty, and animal cruelty.

"Counterterrorism agents at the Federal Bureau of Investigation have conducted numerous surveillance and intelligence-gathering operations that involved, at least indirectly, groups active in causes as diverse as the environment, animal cruelty and poverty relief, newly disclosed agency records show."

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"The latest batch of documents, parts of which the A.C.L.U. plans to release publicly on Tuesday, totals more than 2,300 pages and centers on references in internal files to a handful of groups, including PETA, the environmental group Greenpeace and the Catholic Workers group, which promotes antipoverty efforts and social causes."

F.B.I. Watched Activist Groups, New Files Show

The U.S. Conference of Mayors released a report which showed that last year, the number of requests for emergency food and shelter grew.  The data reported was for the period of November 1, 2004 to October 31, 2005. 

The number of Americans requesting food assistance grew by 12% over the last year, while requests for shelter grew by 6%.

Mayors Release Hunger, Homelessness Survey

Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) knew of Bush's domestic spying, but was not allowed to even tell his staff that the President of the United States was breaking the law.

In July 2003, Sen. Rockefeller wrote a hand-written letter to Darth Vader (a.k.a. Dick Cheney) expressing concern over the spy program.

(Joshua Marshall's Talking Points Memo is on the case!! Great job!)

Talking Points Memo

Letter from Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) to Vice President Cheney regarding NSA domestic wiretapping, July 17th 2003.

Turns out Idiot Son knew the NY Times was going to expose his spying on Americans.

On December 6, he met with the NY Times' Publisher and Executive Editor, in an attempt to ask them not to run the story they sat on for a year.

So let's see if we can review the course of events here.

NY Times reporter Judith Miller helped carry the Iraq WMD water for the Bush Crime Team, and now we find out that the very same newspaper KNEW for a year that George Bush was breaking the law by spying on Americans, without going through the proper channels.

There goes that liberal media for you!

Bush’s Snoopgate