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14th October 2010, 21:30
By Dan Feidt for Twin Cities Indymedia - More than 300 newly released pages of Iowa FBI investigation files confirm the existence of a busy network of federal agents across the Midwest dedicated to clamping down on political dissenters. A Freedom of Information Act request by Des Moines' David Goodner revealed two extensive "Terrorism Enterprise" style investigations against dissenters mainly run by the Omaha FBI office into Iowa, including digging through garbage, watching restaurants, advanced data mining and cell phone record collection. The agents involved claimed "statistical accomplishment" of saving our nation from terrorism: this is exactly, how, and why, federal agents endlessly create pretend counterterror campaigns.
More incidents keep spilling out: yet another report from the Department of Justice oversight office (http://cryptome.org/0002/fbi-home-spy.zip) (ZIP 2.4MB), the Office of the Inspector General, spelled out the FBI's deception towards Congress in spying on antiwar activists in Pittsburgh and elsewhere. The DOJ-OIG report focuses on FBI spying against meetings at Pittsburgh's Thomas Merton Center (http://www.thomasmertoncenter.org/), the friendly group which houses Twin Cities Indymedia's counterpart, PGH Independent Media Center (http://pittsburgh.indymedia.org/), and hosted many IMCers during the 2009 G20. And of course they cheated on tests about surveillance (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=11735377)!
Download Cointelpro Gothic - the Iowa investigation, proving the existence of a national FBI Domestic Terrorism "Anarchists Team": 300 pages FBI FOIA [9MB PDF (http://tc.indymedia.org/files/bigbrother/fbi-iowa-spy-file-foia-wildrose-cointelpro-gothic.pdf)/ Browse (http://www.scribd.com/doc/39239472/FBI-Iowa-Spy-File-Foia-Wildrose-Cointelpro-Gothic)]. Related coverage: Iowa FBI investigation in Des Moines Register (http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20100920/NEWS/9200318/-1/BUSINESS04/Iowa-activists-drew-extensive-FBI-scrutiny) | ACLU files new PGH G20 lawsuit (http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10264/1089204-100.stm) | PGH Trib-Review: Lawsuit planned after terror list (http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/regional/s_699551.html) | Docs show anti-drill PA tracking (http://www.centredaily.com/2010/09/14/2206710/documents-show-homeland-security.html) | OIG: FBI Inappropriately Tracked Domestic Advocacy Groups - The Atlantic (http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/09/oig-fbi-inappropriately-tracked-domestic-advocacy-groups/63276/). Below the fold: How FBI launches counterterror snooping, adds dissidents to terror watchlists!
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http://www.hongpong.com/archives/2010/10/13/cointelpro-gothic-docs-prove-iowa-fbis-wild-rose-rebellion-pretend-rnc-terrorism
More incidents keep spilling out: yet another report from the Department of Justice oversight office (http://cryptome.org/0002/fbi-home-spy.zip) (ZIP 2.4MB), the Office of the Inspector General, spelled out the FBI's deception towards Congress in spying on antiwar activists in Pittsburgh and elsewhere. The DOJ-OIG report focuses on FBI spying against meetings at Pittsburgh's Thomas Merton Center (http://www.thomasmertoncenter.org/), the friendly group which houses Twin Cities Indymedia's counterpart, PGH Independent Media Center (http://pittsburgh.indymedia.org/), and hosted many IMCers during the 2009 G20. And of course they cheated on tests about surveillance (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=11735377)!
Download Cointelpro Gothic - the Iowa investigation, proving the existence of a national FBI Domestic Terrorism "Anarchists Team": 300 pages FBI FOIA [9MB PDF (http://tc.indymedia.org/files/bigbrother/fbi-iowa-spy-file-foia-wildrose-cointelpro-gothic.pdf)/ Browse (http://www.scribd.com/doc/39239472/FBI-Iowa-Spy-File-Foia-Wildrose-Cointelpro-Gothic)]. Related coverage: Iowa FBI investigation in Des Moines Register (http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20100920/NEWS/9200318/-1/BUSINESS04/Iowa-activists-drew-extensive-FBI-scrutiny) | ACLU files new PGH G20 lawsuit (http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10264/1089204-100.stm) | PGH Trib-Review: Lawsuit planned after terror list (http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/regional/s_699551.html) | Docs show anti-drill PA tracking (http://www.centredaily.com/2010/09/14/2206710/documents-show-homeland-security.html) | OIG: FBI Inappropriately Tracked Domestic Advocacy Groups - The Atlantic (http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/09/oig-fbi-inappropriately-tracked-domestic-advocacy-groups/63276/). Below the fold: How FBI launches counterterror snooping, adds dissidents to terror watchlists!
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http://www.hongpong.com/archives/2010/10/13/cointelpro-gothic-docs-prove-iowa-fbis-wild-rose-rebellion-pretend-rnc-terrorism