By Coleen Rowley
Inspector General Criticism Doesn't Phase FBI Raids on Midwestern
Anti-war Activists
<http://www.opednews.com/articles/Inspector-General-Criticis-by-Coleen-R
owley-100925-677.html>
Obviously the scathing review of post 9-11 FBI "terrorism
investigations" targeting various peace and social justice groups
completed by the Department of Justice Inspector General (IG) and just
issued four days ago gave
The final problem is the law enforcement mindset first seen back in 2003
from a spokesman for the California Anti-Terrorism Information Center
(CATIC) who was forced to defend his agency's unjustified targeting of
anti-war protesters without any factual evidence. CATIC Spokesman Van
Winkle <http://http/www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0521-08.htm> ,
apparently without thinking too hard, reasoned that evidence wasn't
needed to issue warnings on war protesters. "You can make an easy kind
of a link that, if you have a protest group protesting a war where the
cause that's being fought against is international terrorism, you might
have terrorism at that (protest)," said Van Winkle, "You can almost
argue that a protest against (the "war on terror") is a terrorist act."