ACLU asks state if it is providing data to FBI

[G_j]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/12/22/BAGAKGBM2C1.DTL

CALIFORNIA

ACLU asks state if it is providing data to FBI
Group concerned after Iraq meeting at Stanford watched

Joe Garofoli, Chronicle Staff Writer

Thursday, December 22, 2005

The American Civil Liberties Union asked the state Wednesday to reveal whether law enforcement agents were gathering information on California activists, in light of revelations that the federal government monitored a conference on Iraq at Stanford University and an anti-war protest at UC Santa Cruz.

The ACLU asked whether local and state law enforcement officials were providing information to the FBI about a variety of groups, including Greenpeace, United for Peace and Justice, Code Pink, UC Santa Cruz Students Against the War, and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

Three California affiliates of the ACLU filed their request with Attorney General Bill Lockyer, citing the state Public Records Act.

The FBI has said it conducts investigations legally and according to Justice Department rules. Lockyer spokesman Nathan Barankin had not yet seen the request Wednesday but said the office would comply.

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[texpatriot2004]

1. Thank God for the ACLU. n.t

[LiberalEsto]

2. I saw an anti ACLU bumper sticker the other day

with a Soviet-style sickle replacing the C in ACLU.
Naturally it was plastered on a monster black pickup truck with a few other right wing nutcase stickers.

:mad:

[texpatriot2004]

3. Yeah Grrr! nm

[FiveGoodMen]

4. Whenever I see something like that

I experiment with telekinesis -- trying to mentally explode their car.

Never works, though.

[EST]

5. Needum heap big laser. (that's what I use in my own fantasy.)

It really smokes 'em--'bout five megawatts does just fine at about three attoseconds!

[FiveGoodMen]

6. Damn! I knew I was forgetting something!