If you didn't adhere to whatever set of beliefs the FBI deems best, then you were a threat to be monitored and taken down. First Amendment rights of Free Expression and Assembly? The FBI cares not for these things. QUAY: You’re Not Paranoid, The FBI Is Out To Get You
If it were 1963, I might be describing a meeting of the Black Panther Party or the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. In reality, this is the story of how the FBI infiltrated a pro-life event held in January 2023.
“Pro-life group Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU) recently alleged on Twitter that an undercover [FBI] informant secretly recorded their meeting,” Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz wrote Wednesday in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland. “‘Eric Mike Santos’ attended and taped a pro-life meeting at the Watergate hotel in Washington D.C. … The recording was then used in federal court as evidence that PAAU Director of Activism, Lauren Handy, violated her terms of release.”
As I said, the FBI has always been up to skulduggery. Look up the history of COINTELPRO, The Citizen's Commission to Investigate the FBI, and The Church Commission.
When the FBI's programs of spying on Americans for being against the Vietnam War, or members of religious organizations that J. Edgar Hoover didn't like, came to an end with the end of COINTELPRO, Hoover didn't promise to stop spying based on Americans' exercise of their First Amendment rights. He only promised to stop doing it wholesale, and do it on a case-by-case basis.
They don't need a larger headquarters building. They need to be reigned in. (Hat tip to Pro-Life Group Alleges The FBI Is Spying On Its Operations.)
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