Or what you ought to be thinking, anyhow 😉
Attorney General John Ashcroft is reportedly considering a plan to relax restrictions on the FBI\’s spying on domestic religious and political organizations. The proposal would loosen one of the most fundamental restrictions on the conduct of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and would be yet another civil rights casualty of the Bush Administration\’s war on terrorism.
The guidelines were originally imposed on the FBI in the 1970s when it was discovered that the Bureau had engaged in widespread unchecked domestic surveillance to monitor antiwar protesters, the Ku Klux Klan, the Black Panthers and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., among others, in an effort to undermine and discredit them . . .
Read more and send a free fax to the Justice Department (courtesy of the American Civil Liberties Union) here.
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