Has Hoover's FBI been resurrected?

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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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  • Reply 1 of 15
    chu_bakkachu_bakka Posts: 1,793member
    Or anti-war organizers at what I think is a Catholic college...
  • Reply 2 of 15
    scottscott Posts: 7,431member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by chu_bakka

    ... People have been subpoenaed and are not allowed to bring lawyers to the Grand Jury.





    ...




    Lawyers are never allowed at the grand jury. So nothing sinister there.
  • Reply 3 of 15
    amorphamorph Posts: 7,112member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by chu_bakka

    Or anti-war organizers at what I think is a Catholic college...



    Disciples of Christ, actually.
  • Reply 4 of 15
    screedscreed Posts: 1,077member
    Regarding Ashcroft as the new Hoover:

    (Screed pictures Ashcroft in a Bo Beep outfit) Ewwwww!



    Screed
  • Reply 5 of 15
    moogsmoogs Posts: 4,296member
    Even if the investigation ends up being warranted, the way it's being carried out is disgraceful. Apparently those in our government who run these kinds of operations have learned nothing from history.
  • Reply 6 of 15
    The FBI doesn't have anything better to do?



    Hey, get them on the Janet Jackson Nipplegate case!
  • Reply 7 of 15
    screedscreed Posts: 1,077member
    Good. Grief.



    Remember when the DoJ turned a corner after 9/11 and they would be chiefly focused on anti-terrorism? Yes? Well scratch that.



    Quote:

    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...
  • Reply 8 of 15
    Does anyone here think Ashcroft is not creepy?
  • Reply 9 of 15
    sammi josammi jo Posts: 4,634member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by chu_bakka

    Does anyone here think Ashcroft is not creepy?



    Scott!!!!
  • Reply 10 of 15
    aquaticaquatic Posts: 5,602member
    Good thing we spend money to cover up a boob on a statue and terrorize our own citizens. I thought Republicans were ANTI government, as in anti-spooks. 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?
  • Reply 11 of 15
    jubelumjubelum Posts: 4,490member
    ... all I want to know is: do we get an Attorney General of the US in a skirt and pumps again?
  • Reply 12 of 15
    jubelumjubelum Posts: 4,490member
    Quote:

    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.
  • Reply 13 of 15
    chu_bakkachu_bakka Posts: 1,793member
    Apparently enough people are freaking out in Iowa for the FBI to back off.
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