The FBI should not be given more power to spy on dissenters in America. In fact, it should not have that power at all.read more

Rather than extend Mueller’s term, Congress should insist on a nominee from outside the bureau, and it should impose a legislative charter to restore law to a domestic intelligence agency that has, yet again, run amok.read more

As a grand jury convenes about the activities of anti-war activists, protests mount around the country.read more

For two and a half years, she posed as a member. She had a key to the office. She handled the books sometimes. She even chaired some meetings and spoke at rallies. But she wasn’t who she said she was.read more

The FBI agents at their home even went through their son’s T-shirt drawer and separated “those that were controversial from those that weren’t.”read more

A retired social worker, who is a U.S. citizen, was humiliated and his expectation of privacy was violated.read more

After Yasir Afifi’s auto mechanic discovered the recording device, the FBI demanded it back.read more

The subpoena also smacks of old-fashioned McCarthyism. It demands all materials related to the “finances of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization.” And it even demands a list of recruits.read more

“Once again the government is going after people for exercising their pesky First Amendment rights to speak freely and the other pesky First Amendment right to associate peaceably,” says the Minnesota ACLU.read more

First, the FBI tried to nail him as a member of the Communist Party.

Then, they tried to recruit him as an informant.

Finally, they put him on a list to be arrested during an emergency.read more

If you’re a Christian, you wouldn’t want the FBI planting informants in the next pew when you’re at church. You wouldn’t want that informant trying to entice your teenage son into committing violent acts.read more

“It’s put a lot of people on edge,” says one of the activists who was spied on.read more

Last August 27, law enforcement agents raided the offices of two social justice groups in Berkeley.

One group is called the Long Haul Infoshop, which describes itself as a community resource center and serves as a library and a bookstore. The other is the East Bay Prisoner Support Group, which is located in the same building.

Though the landlord refused them entry, FBI agents, the University of California police, and Alameda County sheriffs forced their way in. They broke locks on the outside doors, and even on inside doors, as well as on filing cabinets.read more

I was a victim of the spying by the Maryland State Police.read more

If the Bush Justice Department gets its way, the FBI may soon be going after American citizens on the basis of our race, religion, and ethnicity — even when there is no evidence of wrongdoing.read more