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The FBI Goes to Silicon Valley

May 8, 2013

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The FBI's Ineptitude

April 24, 2013

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Five Questions in Wake of Boston Bombings »

By Matthew Rothschild, April 20, 2013

Did the Tsarnaev brothers give the FBI and law enforcement a way to test out plans for martial law?read more

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In the Petraeus Scandal, the FBI Ran Amok »

By Matthew Rothschild, November 14, 2012

Notice how the FBI can take down any person in the country on the flimsy basis of their private, consensual behavior.read more

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Lesson of Petraeus: Beware FBI Witch-Hunts

November 13, 2012

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ALEC, the FBI, and Businessmen’s License to Kill »

By Matthew Rothschild, April 18, 2012

The “Stand Your Ground” laws give business owners the right to gun down trespassers, a right the FBI wants businesses to have in times of an emergency.read more

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Anything goes: the new FBI guidelines »

By Michael Ratner and Margaret Ratner Kunstler, June 21, 2010

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

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Do not extend FBI director’s term »

By Shahid Buttar, June 9, 2011

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

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Protest FBI Repression Today! »

By Matthew Rothschild, January 18, 2011

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

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FBI Infiltrates Twin Cities Anti-War Group »

By Matthew Rothschild, January 14, 2011

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

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The FBI Comes After Activists »

By Matthew Rothschild, December 6, 2010

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

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Another Arab American Finds Tracking Device in His Car »

By Matthew Rothschild, October 15, 2010

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

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FBI Placed Secret Tracking Device on Arab American’s Car  »

By Matthew Rothschild, October 14, 2010

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

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Protest FBI Raids on Activists »

By Matthew Rothschild, September 28, 2009

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

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FBI Raids Activists’ Homes in Twin Cities, Attorneys Claim “Political Suppression” »

By Matthew Rothschild, September 25, 2010

“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

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