"ACLU Marks Fifth Anniversary of Ashcroft Surveillance Guidelines; Report Calls for Guidelines to be Changed to Prevent FBI Abuse"
by Amanda Adams*, 6/6/2007
On May 29, in accordance with the fifth anniversary of the FBI's 2002 revised Guidelines on General Crimes, Racketeering Enterprise and Terrorism Enterprise Investigation, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) released the report, "History Repeated: The Dangers of Domestic Spying by Federal Law Enforcement." The report provides a review of FBI spying along with what the ACLU has gathered from Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. The press release, quotes ACLU Legislative Counsel Marvin Johnson;
Gathering intelligence on grannies, Quakers, and peaceful protesters does little to strengthen national security. Any time the government starts monitoring innocent Americans for exercising their constitutional rights, it chills the very freedoms the FBI has sworn to protect.
