Randi Rhodes just mentioned Denver in her broadcast

[eleny]

She was talking about how peaceful protesters in Denver were being visited by the gov't folks relating to their activities. Did anyone hear what she said? I'm not sure if this related to her earlier statements about FBI talking to other protest activists recently. Just want to be sure I got it straight. I'll check her site later for any links.

[hlthe2b]

1. If anyone gets further information on this, please, please post details!

[MissMarple]

2. It was the Denver Post today and the Colorado Springs Gazette

Here you go. It's originally from the New York Times, and not just in Colorado.

http://denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36%257E11676%257E2337501,00.html?search=filter

<"The message I took from it," said Sarah Bardwell, 21, an intern at a Denver anti-war group who was visited by six investigators a few weeks ago, "was that they were trying to intimidate us into not going to any protests and to let us know that 'hey, we're watching you."'

The unusual initiative comes after the Justice Department, in a previously undisclosed legal opinion, gave its blessing to controversial tactics used last year by the FBI, such as urging police departments to report suspicious activity at political and anti-war demonstrations.

In an internal complaint, an FBI employee charged that bulletins that relayed that request for help improperly blurred the line between lawfully protected speech and illegal activity by suggesting that suspicious activity included everything from violent resistance to Internet fundraising and recruitment. But the Justice Department's Office of Legal Policy, in a five- page internal analysis obtained by The New York Times, disagreed.>

Additionally, it will be discussed of Keith Olbermann tonight.

.http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2227713

[eleny]

3. Keith Olberman interviewed someone from Denver

I saw him interview a young woman the other night. She said that FBI came to her home to talk to her about if she had any plans to go to demonstrations during the GOP conventions. She told Keith that she wasn't even planning to go to NYC during the convention.

What a pack of intimidators.