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"In all three cases, after other Homeland Security Department officials raised concerns, copies of the reports were destroyed. The agency also held a workshop o
by drhowarddrfine 17y ago
"In all three cases, after other Homeland Security Department officials raised concerns, copies of the reports were destroyed. The agency also held a workshop on intelligence-gathering “while ensuring the protection of civil rights and civil liberties”
Someone made an error. They corrected themselves. iow, nothing happened.
- bediger 17y agoIt's great that they corrected themselves and all, but why didn't this come out in public? It seems to have taken an FOIA to get it out there. Also, the "error" is particularly egregious and Stasi-like: collect info on people doing something legal, nay, constitutionally protected. It's also very typical for US Secret Police to do. The COINTELPRO program infiltrated Quaker organizations in the 60s, some DoD office did it before Gulf War I, and someone seems to be trying it today: http://www.afsc.org/ht/display/ContentDetails/i/5264/pid/268 http://www.afsc.org/ht/display/ContentDetails/i/5264/pid/268 I suspect the Secret Police tries to infiltrate Quaker organizations because it's so easy: they welcome just about anyone, and do all their work out in public, unlike less trustworthy organizations like the DHS and TSA.