NSA used city police as trackers

[Waya]

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.


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

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. Baltimore's Mayor should give my Mayor a call...

Potter Rocks! :)

article from April 2005

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With the vote, Portland becomes the first U.S. city to pull its officers out of a FBI anti-terrorism force.

"I am so proud of Portland," said Basja Samuelson, a Northeast Portland resident who was one of 21 speakers Thursday -- 16 of them in favor of the City Council's decision. "I am so proud of you as our mayor and our commissioners, and your willingness to stand up and show that you are the ones who have responsibility and authority over our police officers."

Potter, a former Portland police chief, announced last month that he wanted more access for himself, the police chief and the city attorney to the task force's work. Without more civilian oversight, the mayor says, he cannot guarantee that Portland officers obey state laws barring them from investigating people strictly because of their political or religious ties.

He met several times with federal officials over the past few weeks, but they could not find a way to both address the mayor's worries and keep Portland in the task force. Instead, they agreed to disagree.
"When we look at our history, we see examples that when we blindly give people power, that sometimes the power is misused," Potter said. "It is in our lifetime that we have seen that. We have people sitting in that room who have felt the effects of the abuse of power."

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http://www.cascadiarising.org/or/2005/05/715.shtml

[shance]

2. This is interesting.

Seems to be happening here in LA as well.