The FBI, no longer content with working to maintain order at political events, is now preemptively identifying and interrogating ("interviewing") possible demonstrators. It has summarized this strategy in a memo.
To make matters worse, the Department of Justice blessed the FBI strategy in its own memo - suggesting that no First Amendment concerns are raised by the interrogations.
As I will explain in this column, however, the truth is quite to the contrary: The strategy, as outlined in the memo, is a serious threat to free speech.
article by Bob Barr
~If the FBI's busy intimidating old hippies does it mean there are no terrorist threats? If they've the time and resources to quash legal dissent have all their 'anthrax' and 'Al Qaeda' leads dried up? Whew! What a relief! The crazy anthrax-mailing scientist was acting alone and isn't part of an organized gang and the only crazy Arabs who are plotting against us must be outside the USA, nowhere near these FBI agents.