Military Monitored Planned Parenthood, Supremacists

[friendly_iconoclast]

Source: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/02/military-spied-on-plannet-parenthood

Military Monitored Planned Parenthood, Supremacists
By Kim Zetter February 25, 2010 | 6:38 pm | Categories: Surveillance

The U.S. military monitored Planned Parenthood and a white supremacist group as part of the government’s security preparations for the 2002 Olympics in Utah, according to new documents released by the Department of Defense.

The U.S. Joint Forces Command liaison collected and disseminated information on U.S. citizens who were members of Planned Parenthood and the white supremacist group National Alliance regarding their involvement in protests and distributing literature, according to an intelligence-oversight report released by the Pentagon. The documents indicate that the JFC liaison was working with the FBI’s Olympic Intelligence Center at the time.

This and other intelligence-activity disclosures appear in heavily redacted documents that were released to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. They came in response to an ongoing Freedom of Information Act project the organization is conducting to obtain oversight information from intelligence agencies.

EFF received more than 800 pages from intelligence oversight reports created by the Defense Department inspector general that examine actions, conducted by various branches of the department, that are believed to be illegal.....

Read more: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/02/military-spied-on-plannet-parenthood

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Link to EFF:

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/02/pentagon-discloses-hundreds-reports-possibly

[MadMaddie]

1. I am not sure what threat Planned Parenthood members posed

to the Olympics?

Once again this is why things fall through the cracks they are looking at the wrong groups.

[ellenfl]

2. planned parenthood? how about looking at randall terry and friends. eom

[MadMaddie]

6. Exactly...

But they are white and they are Christian so they equal no threat....see how that works?:sarcasm:

[elehhhhna]

7. maybe they were stalking Tim Tebow -- the one that got away

sarc/off

[bemildred]

3. Calling this "intelligence activity" seems a bit generous. nt

[boppers]

4. They went to computer conferences, too!

They even set up a computer on the internet, *without* getting a warrant to put a computer on the internet! It's all in there!

Those bastards!


:sarcasm:

[Arctic Dave]

5. But the military is full of nothing but uber heros.

How dare we doubt them.

[denverbill]

8. Wow. I'm stunned this isn't on the greatest list yet.

Since when does our military spy on Americans in America? Especially on a group that has never espoused or committed violence.

And while anti-abortion terrorists have committed bombings at the Olympics in Atlanta and several other murders and have espoused violence and may warrant monitoring, they should be monitored by the FBI or state police, not by the military.