Feinstein demands Rumsfeld explain UCSC spying

[Freddie Stubbs]

U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, wants an explanation about reports of Pentagon spying at UC Santa Cruz as well as other surveillance of U.S. citizens.

Feinstein wrote Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in a letter dated Tuesday asking him to explain the practices and authority of the Counter Intelligence Field Activity in collecting information in the course of its domestic investigations.

In December, NBS news aired a string of reports based on Pentagon documents that listed 1,500 "suspicious" activities during a 10-month period. NBC interviewed experts who said the Pentagon had overstepped its bounds in collecting information in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. One of the incidents that caught the eyes and ears of the agency was an April 5 protest against military recruiters at a job fair at UC Santa Cruz.

That protest led to the job fair getting shut down temporarily and the injury of a UC Santa Cruz staffer.

more: http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2006/January/13/local/stories/12local.htm

[400Years]

1. More on the story

http://www.indybay.org/archives/archive_by_id.php?id=4046&category_id=60
01/10/06 - Around 100 Santa Cruzans showed up at the City Council today to demand a denouncement and investigation into the Santa Cruz Police Department's infiltration of a local group's organizing meetings.

Far from being limited to the individuals that were spied on, protesters included former mayors, the ACLU, artists, peaceniks, high school students, UCSC Students Against War members that were recently spied on by the Pentagon, and a local man who fled fascist Czechoslovakia.

[Dunvegan]

2. What the heck is a "peacenik?"

Oh, yes...I remember...Mothers for Peace...Quakers...and a whole mega-passel of us'n right here.

[DBoon]

3. the 50's McCarthy-ite name for sensible people

This was before hippies were invented, so they made a play on the word "beatnik"

[vegpet]

7. I believe I'm one

Spy away, Don Baby!!

:bounce:

[WhiteTara]

8. welcome to DU vegpet!

:hi:

[ugarte]

4. I hope she's not expecting an answer anytime soon

Bushco is accountable to no one.

[DoYouEverWonder]

5. Is it fascism yet?

Or maybe we need a new word for this latest reinvention of totalitarianism.

[rodeodance]

6. wonder if Rummy will reply?