Civil Liberties Issues
- Checks and Balances
- Domestic Surveillance: Warrantless Wiretapping
- Domestic Surveillance: Spying on Protesters and Groups
- Due Process
- Freedom of Speech, Religion, and Assembly
- Guantánamo Bay Detention Center
- Immigrants, Refugees, and Foreign Students
- Open Government/Freedom of Information
- Privacy/Freedom from Unreasonable Searches and Seizures
- Real Democracy: Corporations and the Bill of Rights
- Second Amendment
- Torture, Inhumane and Degrading Treatment, and Rendition
Domestic Surveillance: Spying on Protesters and Groups
See also NSA spying and illegal wiretapping
FBI, Joint Terrorism Task Force, National Guard
National security letters
Spying on peaceful protests
- June 22, 2011, New York Times, Free to Search and Sieze
- January 4, 2009, The Washington Post, More Groups than Thought Monitored in Police Spying
- September 14, 2010, Chicago Tribune, FBI Raids Anti-War Activists’ Homes
- October 1, 2008, The Washington Post, ACLU Seeks Data on Spying for 32 Groups
- January 17, 2007, ACLU, ACLU Report Shows Widespread Pentagon Surveillance of Peace Activists
- October 14, 2006, Ekklesia (UK), US government is spying on nonviolent protestors
- March 10, 2006, MSNBC, Pentagon admits errors in spying on protesters
- September 06, 2005, OMBWatch, FBI Documents Reveal Further Spying on Peace, Civil Rights Groups
- December 20, 2005, Spencer S. Hsu, Washington Post, FBI papers show terror inquiries into PETA; other groups tracked
- December 15, 2005, Democracy Now!, FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force collected intelligence on peaceful protesters in Colorado
- September 19, 2005, John Friedman, The Nation, Spying on the protesters
Pentagon/Counterintelligence Field Activity (CIFA)
- February 12, 2007, DoD Adds "Credibility Assessment" to Polygraph Program
- December 19, 2005, Walter Pincus, CIFA's authority widens
- December 7, 2008, Bod Drogin, Los Angeles Times, Spying on Pacifists, Environmentalists and Nuns
- December 15, 2005, Democracy Now!, Pentagon caught spying on US anti-war and anti-nuclear activists
- December 13, 2005, Lisa Myers, Douglas Pasternak & Rich Gardella, NBC/MSNBC/TruthOut, More Groups Than Thought Monitored in Police Spying
Local Police Agencies
- May 28, 2011, The New York Times, For Anarchist, Details of Life as F.B.I. Target
- September 15, 2010, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Philadelphia Firm Wrongly Targeted Activists
- February 17, 2009, The Washington Post, Federal Agency Aided MD Spying; Homeland Security Department Gave Information to State Police
- February 17, 2009, Lisa Rein, Washington Post, Federal Agency Aided Md. Spying
- January 26, 2009, Seattle Indymedia, Confirmed: Tacoma Spies on Regional Activists
- January 4, 2009, Lisa Rein and Josh White, Washington Post, More Groups Than Thought Monitored in Police Spying
- August 8, 2008, Baltimore Nonviolence Center, Federal Rules of 70s Eyed
- July 18, 2008, Lisa Rein, Washington Post, Police Spied on Activists In Md.
Other Resources
Department
of the Army letter (PDF) detailing their power to investigate
U.S persons
Department
of Defense Directive on Polygraph and Credibility Assessment Program
FBI Investigations: Be Prepared!
FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF)
Resources: Department of Justice
(DOJ)