Widespread Spying Preceded '04 GOP Convention

Frosty Piss alerts us to a story in the New York Times reporting on details that are emerging of a far-flung spying operation lasting up to a year leading up to the 2004 Republican National Convention. The New York Police Department mounted a spy campaign reaching well beyond the state of New York. For at least a year before the convention, teams of undercover New York police officers traveled to cities across the US, Canada, and Europe to conduct covert observations of people who planned to protest at the convention. Across the country undercover officers attended meetings of political groups, posing as sympathizers or fellow activists. In at least some cases, intelligence on what appeared to be lawful activity was shared with other police departments. Outlines of the pre-convention operations are emerging from records in federal lawsuits brought over mass arrests during the convention.

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Re:Looks like good policework

[fredrated]

Welcome to america

I declare you to be a terrorist.

That's it, pack your bags, you now belong in Gitmo, enjoy (not) your stay.

Re:A big shakeup is coming

[freedom_india]

I still wonder where does he get his 30%-40% rating from?
Are these texans and other Southerners still SO blind?
Can't they see he is not a cowboy like them? that wearing cowboy boots, a 10-gallon Hat, does not make you brave and smart?
Maybe we SHOULD have let the civil war succeed so that texas and other southern bush states were a separate country. That way, bush would be today the prez for these S.U.S.A which the North would invade for oil.