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[SpeakSpeak News] has in its files 1,173 pages of internal documents on the American Civil Liberties Union, the leading critic of the Bush administration’s antiterrorism policies, and 2,383 pages on Greenpeace, an environmental group that has led acts of civil disobedience in protest over the administration’s policies, the Justice Department disclosed in a court filing this month in a federal court in Washington.

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Blogsofwar.comhttp://www.blogsofwar.com [Blogsofwar.com] FBI Admits to Monitoring ACLU, Greenpeace, and Other Progressive ...: The American Civil Liberties Union and Greenpeace are suing for the release of 35-hundred pages of documents they contend will show that F-B-I task forces set up to combat terrorism have also been keeping tabs on them.

http://www.acsblog.org [Acsblog.org] ACSBlog: The Blog of the American Constitution Society: "Sailor ...: Permitting the selective prosecution of a group like Greenpeace merely because the government disagrees with their point of view would irreparably harm the free speech rights of all Americans. Protecting the right to disagree with the government is what the First Amendment is all about.

Greenpeace.org[Greenpeace.org] Bush takes Greenpeace to court | Greenpeace International: In a matter of a few weeks, US law could be used in an unprecedented way to declare Greenpeace USA a criminal organisation, as a result of acting to protect Brazilian mahogany - a species now declared at risk according to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). It is worth noting here that at the time of the CITES declaration, many governments congratulated Greenpeace for the years of campaign work to protect the species.

Freerepublic.comhttp://www.freerepublic.com [Freerepublic.com] FBI says it has files on ACLU, Greenpeace, other rights groups: The FBI has identified 1,173 pages related to the ACLU and 2,383 pages about Greenpeace, but it needs at least until February to process the ACLU files and until June to review the Greenpeace documents, the government said in a filing in U.S. District Court in Washington.

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