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 Fabrice Florin - Sep. 10, 2008

[Disclosure: I head NewsTrust, which has a consulting agreement with the author] This blog post provides informative links to articles about recent arrests of citizens involved protests at the Republican Convention, as well as insights on issues related to citizen surveillance. This is a big topic to take on in a single post, but the report provides a helpful historical overview, including documents describing the FBI's covert action programs against american citizens, as well as proposed guidelines to address the issue of domestic surveillance. This topic deserves more investigation, and I look forward to future reports on this important subject.

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