Comments on: F.B.I. Watched Activist Groups, New Files Show

By: Jonk

Jonk — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 13:42:02 +0000

As long as they start at your place first...they are welcome here anytime.

By: anjin-san

anjin-san — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 05:46:53 +0000

Better send the FBI over to give Jonk's home a good search. Who knows, he could be planning a crime. Or criticising the wise policies of our benevolent leaders...

By: Marcia L. Neil

Marcia L. Neil — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 23:52:42 +0000

Of course the F. B. I. watched -- often only a few words or phrases ["utterances"] elicited during a telephone call-demand operational method will be used to initiate and mobilize new groups continuously.

By: Don

Don — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 18:31:18 +0000

Why do I have this uncanny sense that, somewhere, Richard Nixon is smiling?

By: Jonk

Jonk — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 17:58:21 +0000

I don't care who gets a looking over, left or right of center. The FBI has a job to prevent, not simply react, to criminal activity.

By: McGehee

McGehee — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 17:32:41 +0000

Pardon me, but if the FBI under a Democratic administration were surveilling the NRA, I donât think weâd be hearing such sanguine voices shrugging it off. (Mixed metaphor, sorry.)

Don't you remember the IRS audits that all the conservative groups and think tanks were suddenly and suspiciously treated to during the 1990s?

By: McGehee

McGehee — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 17:27:58 +0000

And when Hillary is President you know who sheâll be watching. What goes around comes around.

That won't be "coming around," DC -- that'll be "back to square one."

By: Dodd

Dodd — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 16:49:12 +0000

The Earth Liberation Front and the Animal Liberation Front are terrorist groups - they use force, sometimes violently (though they usually stick to property damage, they like arson, which has a high potential to result in other people's death), in an effort to effect political goals - and the FBI would be failing to do its job if it didn't try to infiltrate them and stop them.

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 15:59:47 +0000

Anderson: The NRA is a weak analogy. Perhaps Operation Rescue or one of the white Christian militia groups, perhaps?

I'm leery of spying on citizens but, so long as the i's are dotted and the t's are crossed in terms of 4th Amendment rights, am willing to concede that there are radical groups (e.g., the KKK in the 1960s) that need to be monitored by the FBI.

I'm really more concerned that the CT Division is doing the work rather than the traditional agents.

By: RA

RA — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 15:59:09 +0000

We should also investigate these news outlets that print stories on highly classified materials. I want to see 100 MSM "jounalists" behind bars by next Christmas for contempt of court for hiding their sources during a criminal investigation.

If they were held to the same standard as all Americans, they would be issuing jail suites right out of journalism school.

By: RA

RA — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 15:55:53 +0000

If anyone should be investigated it should be J Rockafeller for his collaberation with Syria.

By: Anderson

Anderson — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 15:53:55 +0000

Pardon me, but if the FBI under a Democratic administration were surveilling the NRA, I don't think we'd be hearing such sanguine voices shrugging it off. (Mixed metaphor, sorry.)

By: Jonk

Jonk — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 15:01:05 +0000

So what? Isn't this the job of the FBI, to figure out if a particular group is a threat or not? You do that by checking out what they are doing...

By: DC Loser

DC Loser — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:52:24 +0000

And when Hillary is President you know who she'll be watching. What goes around comes around.

By: Herb

Herb — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:37:12 +0000

Most of these groups NEED watching.