NSA used city police as trackers (on peace activists)

[ProSense]

NSA used city police as trackers

Activists monitored on way to Fort Meade war protest, agency memos show
By Douglas Birch
Sun reporter
Originally published January 13, 2006

The National Security Agency used law enforcement agencies, including the Baltimore Police Department, to track members of a city anti-war group as they prepared for protests outside the sprawling Fort Meade facility, internal NSA documents show.

The target of the clandestine surveillance was the Baltimore Pledge of Resistance, a group loosely affiliated with the local chapter of the American Friends Service Committee, whose members include many veteran city peace activists with a history of nonviolent civil disobedience.

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An internal NSA e-mail, posted on two Internet sites this week, shows how operatives with the "Baltimore Intel Unit" provided a minute-by-minute account of Pledge of Resistances' preparations for a July 3, 2004, protest at Fort Meade. An attorney for the demonstrators said he obtained the document through the discovery process from NSA.

"****UPDATE: 11:55 HRS. S/A V------- ADVISED THE PROTESTORS LEFT 4600 YORK ROAD EN ROUTE TO THE NSA CAMPUS ... S/A V----- REPORTED FIVE OR SIX PEOPLE IN A BLUE VAN WITH BLACK BALLOONS, ANTI-WAR SIGNS AND A POSSIBLE HELIUM TANK," reported an internal NSA e-mail.

Later, those shadowing the peace group reported on their arrival at the NSA's Fort Meade headquarters.

"****UPDATE: 1300 HRS. THE SOC WAS ADVISED THE PROTESTORS WERE PROCEEDING TO THE AIRPLANE MEMORIAL WITH THREE HELIUM BALLOONS ATTACHED TO A BANNER THAT STATED "THOSE WHO EXCHANGE FREEDOM FOR SECURITY DESERVE IT, NEITHER WILL ULTIMATELY LOSE BOTH," the NSA's somewhat garbled account of the event reported.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.nsa13jan13,1,3964287.story?coll=bal-home-headlines&ctrack=1&cset=true

Gonzales to Testify on Domestic Spying

By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 9 minutes ago


WASHINGTON - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has agreed to testify at a Senate hearing on the Bush administration's domestic spying program.


Gonzales said he responded to a request by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa.

Gonzales said Friday he will discuss the legal authority for the National Security Agency's warrantless eavesdropping on telephone conversations between suspected terrorists and people in the United States.

The attorney general will not talk about operational aspects of the program at the hearing or divulge any secret information which would aid possible targets of surveillance.

The hearing is expected to take place early next month.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060113/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/domestic_spying_gonzales

[Selteri]

1. Oh please Mr. Government man, protect us from the people

who don't want us to be at war and who don't want us to be international bullies.
THey're really so dangerous with their peaceful ways and ideas and words! :sarcasm:

[Fire Walk With Me]

2. Helium tank... Worried that they'll imitate Bush in tiny voices?

"That's hard work there, torture, we don't torture, pretzel."

And remember, if they already have you on a list, they can track the GPS in your car and cell phone at any time.