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From Bank Records to Protests (Nadelhoffer)

Over at PageOneQ, Michael Rogers details yet another unconstitutional spy program involving student organizations.  Not surprisingly, the documents  "indicate that e-mails sent by various student groups were intercepted and monitored by the government and that the government collected reports from seemingly undercover agents who attended at least one student protest at Southern Connecticut State University. None of the reports in the documentation, however, indicated any terrorist activity by the students who were monitored."  See here for more details. 

UPDATE: Apparently, the Governator is also not afraid to snoop into the activities of people who protest the current administration’s policies.  See here for details.

UPDATE: The ACLU is suing the Department of Defense for the very practices discussed in this post.  See here for details.

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