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FBI Engaged in Large-Scale Group Profiling

Staff / Truthdig Oct 26, 2011 Researchers at the ACLU recently uncovered an FBI program that uses census data to draw maps that link racial and ethnic communities to certain types of crimes. The investigations, known under the names of "assessments" and "domain management," appear to have been going on for several years. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

FBI Raids Homes of Anti-War Protesters

Staff / Truthdig Sep 25, 2010 The FBI has executed several search warrants (aka breaking down people's doors) in Minneapolis and Chicago as part of an investigation into a handful of anti-war protest organizers on allegations of, we kid you not, “activities connected to the material support of terrorism.” Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Disclosure of ‘Secrets’ in the ’70s Didn’t Destroy the Nation

Amy Goodman / Truthdig Apr 29, 2009 Back in the Watergate era, the Senate's Church Committee exposed government abuses. Of course some people tried to block its work. You may have heard of a couple of them -- Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

FBI Tracked Halberstam for Over Two Decades

Staff / Truthdig Nov 9, 2008 This is spooky: A group of journalism students from the City University of New York filed a Freedom of Information request and discovered that the FBI tracked the late Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Halberstam for more than two decades. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Here We COINTELPRO Again: FBI Changes the Rules

Staff / Truthdig Oct 8, 2008 With everybody's eyeballs and earlobes focused on the economy and the election, the Justice Department pushed through rule changes that allow the FBI to go back to the bad old days of spying more aggressively on Americans. Civil libertarians and even some lawmakers are in an uproar. The Center for Investigative Reporting has a must-read report that explains why. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )