Wal-Mart secures gag order in security scandal

[lovuian]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18024300/

ENTONVILLE, Ark. - Wal-Mart has won a gag order to stop a fired security operative from talking to reporters after a string of revelations about the retailer’s large surveillance operations and its business plans, according to court papers made public on Monday.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. filed a lawsuit and request for a temporary restraining order directly with Circuit Court Judge John R. Scott after court hours Friday in the retailer’s home county of Benton. After-hours filing directly with a judge was rare in civil cases, Scott said.

The suit and the judge’s order granting the restraining order against Bruce Gabbard became part of the public file Monday.
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Wal-Mart made the case public last month and denied Gabbard’s claims that his actions were the result of pressure from Kenneth Senser, a former senior CIA and FBI official who has headed Wal-Mart’s office of global security since 2003. Another FBI veteran, Joseph Lewis, is head of corporate investigations under Senser.
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The "Project Red" evidentally was some heavy duty spying going on

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. Friday, DemocracyNow had 2 segments on this

http://www.democracynow.org/index.pl?issue=20070406

A former worker at Wal-Mart is claiming the retail giant is running a sophisticated surveillance operation that targets employees, journalists, stockholders and critics. The worker, Bruce Gabbard, says the retail giant spied on employees, journalists, stockholders and critics of the company. We speak with the Wall Street Journal reporter who broke the story.

[Sherman A1]

2. Wal Mart - Big Brother -Hmmm....

hard to tell the difference.

Yet another in an ever expanding reason - to never shop there.


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[jumpoffdaplanet]

3. Penn & Teller will be so happy

They wouldn't want to hear anything disturbing them in their little minds from all that whoring for the Big Box.

[lovuian]

4. kick

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