Has Hoover's FBI been resurrected?
http://desmoinesregister.com/news/st.../23473647.html
the University Hosts an anti-war conference 3 months ago... now the FBI is asking for the identities of all the participants and speakers. And the Judge orders a gag on all employees of Drake University. People have been subpoenaed and are not allowed to bring lawyers to the Grand Jury.
So if you're anti-war you're a possible terrorist?
Group fights anti-war inquiry
Lawyers move to block subpoenas
By JEFF ECKHOFF and MARK SIEBERT
02/07/2004
Lawyers worked Friday to derail a federal grand jury investigation into an anti-war conference held three months ago at Drake University.
Federal officials have refused to say why they want information about the conference, the legal group that hosted it and four Des Moines-area peace activists involved.
But officials with the National Lawyers Guild, host of the Nov. 15 conference, said they intend to move Monday to block the subpoena, one of five delivered this week by the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force.
Bruce Nestor, a Minneapolis lawyer representing the guild, said he will argue that the subpoena has a "chilling effect on the rights of people to associate with the National Lawyers Guild and with the rights of our members."
Four of the subpoenas went to Des Moines peace activists, who were told to appear Tuesday before a federal grand jury. One went to Drake University, asking for information about the anti-war conference and records of the National Lawyers Guild local chapter.
The U.S. attorney's office in Des Moines convinced a judge Thursday to issue an order under seal - described by peace-movement sources as a gag order - to prohibit Drake employees from talking about the document search.
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the University Hosts an anti-war conference 3 months ago... now the FBI is asking for the identities of all the participants and speakers. And the Judge orders a gag on all employees of Drake University. People have been subpoenaed and are not allowed to bring lawyers to the Grand Jury.
So if you're anti-war you're a possible terrorist?
Group fights anti-war inquiry
Lawyers move to block subpoenas
By JEFF ECKHOFF and MARK SIEBERT
02/07/2004
Lawyers worked Friday to derail a federal grand jury investigation into an anti-war conference held three months ago at Drake University.
Federal officials have refused to say why they want information about the conference, the legal group that hosted it and four Des Moines-area peace activists involved.
But officials with the National Lawyers Guild, host of the Nov. 15 conference, said they intend to move Monday to block the subpoena, one of five delivered this week by the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force.
Bruce Nestor, a Minneapolis lawyer representing the guild, said he will argue that the subpoena has a "chilling effect on the rights of people to associate with the National Lawyers Guild and with the rights of our members."
Four of the subpoenas went to Des Moines peace activists, who were told to appear Tuesday before a federal grand jury. One went to Drake University, asking for information about the anti-war conference and records of the National Lawyers Guild local chapter.
The U.S. attorney's office in Des Moines convinced a judge Thursday to issue an order under seal - described by peace-movement sources as a gag order - to prohibit Drake employees from talking about the document search.
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Comments
Originally posted by chu_bakka
... People have been subpoenaed and are not allowed to bring lawyers to the Grand Jury.
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Lawyers are never allowed at the grand jury. So nothing sinister there.
Originally posted by chu_bakka
Or anti-war organizers at what I think is a Catholic college...
Disciples of Christ, actually.
(Screed pictures Ashcroft in a Bo Beep outfit) Ewwwww!
Screed
Hey, get them on the Janet Jackson Nipplegate case!
Remember when the DoJ turned a corner after 9/11 and they would be chiefly focused on anti-terrorism? Yes? Well scratch that.
A move by U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft to subpoena the medical records of 40 patients who received so-called partial-birth abortions at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago was halted?at least temporarily?when a Chicago federal judge quashed the information request.
Am I supposed to believe that there are Al Qaeda cells in these women's wombs!?
Screed ...just call us all Wilson from now on and be done with it...
Originally posted by chu_bakka
Does anyone here think Ashcroft is not creepy?
Scott!!!!
Originally posted by Aquatic
The Republican party in America is just a big bunch of hypocrites who spend more money than Democrats (tax breaks for the rich, contracts, etc) and conserve far less, as in the environment, civil liberties, American lives in Iraq, soldiers' pensions, privacy and women's choice, need I go on?
Tax breaks for people who pay taxes... THERE'S a concept.
Bush and Co are scary for Civil Liberties, but so is every administration since FDR. Terrorism is just another cog in the Problem/Reaction/Solution cycle that has been happening for centuries. As government increases, liberty decreases, regardless of the D or R in the White House or Congress.
Republicans have spent WAY WAY too much, just trying to cozy up to big spenders on the other side of the isle. A sick part of the "new tone"
There is seldom a path to winning with a die-hard big govt type. Welfare state or bust. We're looking at bust, here in the bottom of the sixth inning.