Eric Lichtblau of the New York Times reports today on a batch of documents obtained from the ACLU proving the FBI has been tracking the activities of, among others, environmental groups such as Greenpeace and animal rights groups like PETA.
One F.B.I. document indicates that agents in Indianapolis planned to conduct surveillance as part of a "Vegan Community Project." Another document talks of the Catholic Workers group's "semi-communistic ideology." A third indicates the bureau's interest in determining the location of a protest over llama fur planned by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
This is the second -- and potentially more incriminating to the FBI -- batch of documents the ACLU obtained under a Freedom of Information Act. It comes on the heels of an embarrassing $100,000 settlement the FBI had to pay for harrassing Josh Connole in connection with the 2003 vandalism of a Hummer dealership, which it was always obvious Connole had nothing to do with. It establishes that the FBI planted informants within certain groups, as well as tracking Web site activity and protests.
It also shows that the FBI looked into whether Greenpeace was funding that "militant group," the Earth Liberation Front -- which is just what Oklahoma oil-industry whore James Inhofe has been asking them to do all along. As I have yet to see the evidence that any group called the ELF still exists, this seems like a collosal waste of taxpayer money.
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