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wakeme2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 06:52 PM
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FBI to Do Prisoner 'Threat Assessment' (checking prisoners' beliefs)
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Terrorism-Probe-FBI.html

August 30, 2005
AP: FBI to Do Prisoner 'Threat Assessment'
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 7:22 p.m. ET

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- FBI agents nationwide have been ordered to conduct ''threat assessments'' of inmates who might have become radicalized in prison and could commit extremist violence upon their release, according to an FBI letter obtained by The Associated Press.

''The primary goal of these efforts is to assess and disrupt the recruitment and conversion of inmates to radicalized ideologies which advocate violence,'' according to a letter from the acting assistant chief of the FBI's Los Angeles office, Randy D. Parsons.

..more at ap..
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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 06:53 PM
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1. Special privileges for atheists? n/t
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RageFist Donating Member (210 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 06:55 PM
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2. As an atheist...
I am actually extremely nervous about the precedent this kind of thing could set. These are dark times...
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wli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 08:53 PM
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4. you know what to do... it's a modern-day auto da fe n/t
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rocktivity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 08:16 PM
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3. I would think that being held without charges or a lawyer
would radicalize them quite enough.

:headbang:
rocknation
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