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18 Oct 2017, 7:00 am
In the 1960s, the FBI conducted extensive surveillance of those it deemed “Black Extremists” and “Black Nationalists” under the covert COINTELPRO program. [read post]
4 Oct 2017, 6:32 pm
Alarmed at wide-ranging executive abuses behind a wall of secrecy, Congress enacted reforms that included the creation of a secret court, and insisted on regulations by the Department of Justice to further curtail the FBI's 40-year assault on democracy in the form of COINTELPRO: its infamous Counterintelligence Programs. [read post]
8 Sep 2017, 10:00 am
One document referred without explanation to a program called “COINTELPRO. [read post]
13 Aug 2017, 6:30 am
As Americans gathered to watch James Comey testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee, a meme emerged on certain corners of the left-leaning internet: people had a crush on the former FBI director. [read post]
4 Apr 2017, 11:39 am
So the key function of the grand bargain was not merely keeping the intelligence community actually within the law but also validating it to a public conditioned by Watergate and COINTELPRO to believe the worst that the intelligence community was functioning within the law. [read post]
16 Jan 2017, 6:15 am
" Those operations, described in internal FBI files as COINTELPRO, have been forgotten by many Americans, but represent a key to understanding why the specter of mass surveillance threatens not only privacy, but also democracy. [read post]
25 Mar 2016, 12:03 pm
During the infamous COINTELPRO era revealed by those committees’ investigations, the FBI actively worked to suppress the movement for equal rights for women, directed violence toward the civil rights movement, placed provocateurs in the movement to end the war in Vietnam, and conducted a character assassination campaign targeting a world-historic leader we now appropriately honor as a national hero. [read post]
9 Feb 2016, 3:06 pm
As the former congressional investigators who uncovered COINTELPRO put it, "Nothing less than the confidence of the American people in our intelligence agencies, indeed, the federal government, is at stake. [read post]
2 Feb 2016, 7:30 am
When the public learned about the FBI’s illegal and antidemocratic COINTELPRO operations in the 1970s, the attorney general imposed rules forbidding the FBI from spying on people unless agents could show the targets were likely violating the law. [read post]
17 Jan 2016, 9:17 am
" What Congress had uncovered was known within U.S. intelligence agencies as the Counter-Intelligence Programs, or COINTELPRO. [read post]
9 May 2015, 8:11 am
First, Judge Gerry Lynch—for whom I have high regard as a general matter—begins his opinion with an ominous comparison of the current era to the COINTELPRO era, the Keith case, and the abuses that led to the Church Committee:… [read post]
22 Dec 2014, 1:15 pm
Opposing all this are Chesimard’s supporters, who claim that her prosecution was flawed, and further that she was a victim of the FBI’s COINTELPRO—which covertly and at times illegally infiltrated domestic political organizations like the BLA. [read post]
25 Sep 2014, 2:42 pm
Watergate, COINTELPRO, the CIA’s manipulation of politics in Vietnam—none of these things would be common knowledge without courageous reporters, who were willing to publish stories on scandals that rocked the entire country. [read post]
9 Jul 2014, 4:00 am
After quoting an appallingly-bigoted former FBI official (who believes, among other things, that CIA director John Brennan is a secret Muslim) and an internal government email that uses a gross ethnic slur (“Mohammed Raghead”), he concludes that we’re dealing with COINTELPRO. [read post]
9 May 2014, 11:47 am
I was troubled by Philip Heymann’s Lawfare critique of the joint Inspectors General review of the government’s pre-Boston Marathon bombing investigation of Tamerlan Tsarnaev. [read post]
25 Apr 2014, 8:47 am
Edgard Hoover, creador del infame Programa de Contrainteligencia (COINTELPRO, por sus siglas en inglés). [read post]
5 Apr 2014, 12:00 am
Both left and right are shadow boxing, creating an image of Islam as a dark peril that must be managed, and perhaps, extinguished.We've revived the very worst of the old COINTELPRO programs once used against the Black Panthers, Martin Luther King and the left, and inspired thousands of new federal intelligence agents and their informants to fan out across the country keeping track of who says what to whom, all in the service of policing dangerous thoughts.Stirring hatred of Islam is big… [read post]
31 Mar 2014, 7:12 am
The government tried to keep secret documents pertaining to COINTELPRO using the same dishonest excuse. [read post]
13 Feb 2014, 12:57 pm
COINTELPRO, short for Counter Intelligence Program, was started in 1956 by the FBI and continued until 1971. [read post]
5 Feb 2014, 2:01 pm
As part of this image transformation, Helms did what Hoover had done many times—and would do again in April 1971 to protect COINTELPRO when he thought it was about to be revealed—to minimize the possibility that secret operations would be exposed. [read post]
