New FBI Guidelines: More COINTELPRO?

The Writing Corner by Beth Wellington | Sep. 4, 2008 (Special Report)

[Disclosure: author is a NewsTrust staff member. The portion quoting Jeanne Roberts was added after her review and hence there is no reference to her relationship to the piece in her review.] At 9:30 a.m. on September 17, the Senate Judiciary Committee will be hearing from Robert S. Mueller, III, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the wake of complaints. I wait, wondering, what, if anything, will come out of this hearing--how much further ... Full Story »

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 by Dwight Rousu - Sep. 4, 2008

The article gathers a great deal of information from a long time span and all levels of authority. The information is critical to guarding civil rights and democracy in this country. One interesting question not asked is whether the police are using infiltrated agent provocateurs to initiate violence that will allow police to justify crushing otherwise peaceful demonstrations. Such provocateurs are widely alleged to have caused the "riot" charges in the Seattle WTO, and accusations of the tactic are presented at http://www.thestar.com/News/article/248608 with a video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St1-WTc1kow

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