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27 Jan 2014, 2:49 pm by David Greene
Apparently the NSA and the FBI want us to forget the misuse of past secret surveillance programs, such as the illegal COINTELPRO programs that included the wayward investigations of Martin Luther King and John Lennon. [read post]
24 Jan 2014, 1:59 pm by By Rekha Arulanantham, ACLU
Which civil rights leader was spied on by the FBI as part of its COINTELPRO program? [read post]
21 Jan 2014, 6:42 pm by Frank Pasquale
” Law enforcers aren’t supposed to set up “dragnet surveillance” of every communication, or use whatever data stores are compiled by the National Security Agency, unless there is a true security threat.Between 1956 and 1971, the FBI’s COINTELPRO program engaged in domestic covert action designed to disrupt groups engaged in the civil rights, antiwar, and communist movements. [read post]
King’s story: our government’s obsessive campaign of surveillance of his private life, as part of the FBI’s shameful COINTELPRO program. [read post]
7 Jan 2014, 5:53 pm by Ruthann Robson
Professor Ruthann Robson, City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law A new book, The Burglary: The Discovery of J. [read post]
10 Sep 2013, 10:53 am by Dave Maass
"A generation ago, I joined with other antiwar activists to successfully sue the FBI over its 'COINTELPRO' program, which violated our right to assemble in opposition to the Vietnam War. [read post]
9 Sep 2013, 11:32 am by Benjamin Wittes
We are not living in the age of COINTELPRO or the Watergate-era intelligence scandals. [read post]
18 Aug 2013, 9:00 am by Benjamin Wittes
” What with unconstitutional surveillance, hidden for months from the court, agency officials instructed to withhold information, thousands of privacy violations, and a court enfeebled in its oversight responsibility, you’d think we were dealing with COINTELPRO here. [read post]
12 Jun 2013, 6:19 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Now that the Coty case has been decided, one suspects we may see many more, similar cases on the weekly hand down lists in the very near future.From the COINTELPRO filesInteresting, timely history lesson from the Austin Chronicle about a time just a few decades ago when the American intelligence apparatus was turned on political dissidents, focusing on events at UT-Austin. [read post]
10 Jun 2013, 7:57 pm by Guest Blogger
Consider the following domestic surveillance initiatives: the Palmer Raids, COINTELPRO, Watergate, and the army surveillance of Americans that motivated Laird v. [read post]
26 Dec 2012, 11:20 pm by Old Fox
Liberals have become so mesmerized by multicultural nonsense that they have forgotten the real history of Kwanzaa and Karenga’s United Slaves – the violence, the Marxism, the insanity.Most absurdly, for leftists anyway, they have forgotten the FBI’s tacit encouragement of this murderous black nationalist cult founded by the father of Kwanzaa.Kwanzaa emerged not from Africa, but from the FBI’s COINTELPRO. [read post]
8 Sep 2012, 11:49 am by Danielle Citron
 NGI may be capable of searching systems that do not, and need not, comply with the Privacy Act (which includes data minimization requirements, such as purpose limits), or 28 C.F.R. pt. 23 (which requires reasonable suspicion that a person committed a crime before collecting information–a regulation passed post-COINTELPRO). [read post]
2 Sep 2012, 7:07 am by Elizabeth Pleck
  My research for Not Just Roommates: Cohabitation after the Sexual Revolution (Chicago, 2012) turned up a history usually filed under the heading COINTELPRO or midnight raids on welfare mothers. [read post]
1 Jun 2012, 2:30 pm by Ziv Steinberg
Edgar Hoover-era COINTELPRO investigations targeting civil rights and anti-war activists, the FBI is now training its agents to be on the lookout for "Black Separatist" terrorists, according to FBI training materials released this week by the ACLU. [read post]
29 May 2012, 10:31 am by Jessica Monaco, ACLU
 The plan describes implementation of a "disruption strategy" that is eerily reminiscent of the COINTELPRO-era disruption activities that were specifically designed to suppress First Amendment activity. [read post]
26 Feb 2012, 3:00 pm by Danielle Citron
”  These activities resemble the monitoring of protected groups during the COINTELPRO era, which the Church Committee denounced and which Congress sought to prevent in 28 C.F.R. part 23. [read post]
6 Dec 2011, 5:54 am by justinsilverman
After documents describing the COINTELPRO operations became public, a U.S. [read post]
4 Jan 2011, 10:58 am by Stanley D. Radtke, Esq.
The activists say the fervor of the current harassment is reminiscent of the agency’s COINTELPRO program of the 1950s and 1960s that targeted Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Black Panther leaders, among many others. [read post]
29 Jun 2010, 2:18 pm by Amanda Simon, ACLU
The FBI's COINTELPRO program was a classic, as was the CIA's Operation Chaos. [read post]