This video is called Domestic Spying and Corporate Amnesty (1 of 2).
Part 2 is here.
By Naomi Spencer in the USA:
Bush administration widens domestic spy agency powers
25 August 2008
In recent weeks, Bush administration officials have introduced a number of provisions that substantially widen the powers of intelligence and law enforcement agencies to conduct spying and other operations within the US against American citizens.
Last week, several news outlets reported that the Justice Department had drafted new rules on intelligence gathering operations which it plans to ratify on October 1, the first day of the new fiscal year and one month before the November elections.
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FBI PLANS BROADER POWERS
A Justice Department plan would loosen restrictions on the Federal Bureau of Investigation to allow agents to open a national security or criminal investigation against someone without any clear basis for suspicion.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/21/washington/21fbi.html?_r=1&ref=us&oref=login
NATIONAL GUARD SENT FROM IRAQ TO NOLA
“We’re not here to make friends”. . . . The sergeant, for example, constantly looks left and right. “I’ve been doing that ever since Iraq.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/25/us/25land.html
ONE PROTEST, 52 ARRESTS AND A $2 MILLION PAYOUT
The city has agreed to pay $2,007,000 to end a lawsuit brought by 52 people who were swept up in a mass arrest along a Midtown sidewalk during a protest against the invasion of Iraq.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/20/nyregion/20about.html?ref=nyregion
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Spying on antiwar activists
The 53 men and women wrongly classified by the Maryland State Police as terrorists include two Catholic nuns, a Democratic candidate for Congress, a man who campaigns against military recruiting at high schools and one person who has never set foot in the state.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/11/AR2008101101427.html
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