Nurse Investigated for Sedition-After Writing anti-Bush Letter to Editor

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Nurse Investigated for 'Sedition' After Writing Letter to Editor

By E&P Staff

Published: February 11, 2006 9:00 PM ET

NEW YORK Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) has asked Veterans Affairs Secretary James Nicholson for a thorough inquiry of his agency's investigation into whether a V.A. nurse's letter to the editor criticizing the Bush administration amounted to "sedition."

Merely opposing government policies and expressing a desire to change course "does not provide reason to believe that a person is involved in illegal subversive activity," he said. Bingaman said such investigations raise "a very real possibility of chilling legitimate political speech."

Laura Berg, a clinical nurse specialist for 15 years, wrote a letter in September to a weekly Albuquerque newspaper criticizing how the administration handled Hurricane Katrina and the Iraq Wwr. She urged people to "act forcefully" by bringing criminal charges against top administration officials, including the president, to remove them from power because they played games of "vicious deceit." She added: "This country needs to get out of Iraq now and return to our original vision and priorities of caring for land and people and resources rather than killing for oil....Otherwise, many more of us will be facing living hell in these times."

The agency seized her office computer and launched an investigation. Berg is not talking to the press, but reportedly fears losing her job.

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[Oversea Visitor]

1. Sad time

This no better than a third world country.

[rodeodance]

2. sometimes i really wonder about the intellectual capacity of those

in charge!!!

[Sarah Ibarruri]

3. It isn't a matter of mental capacity

It's called crushing dissent. It means that anyone who disagrees with the administration gets hassled, fired, harassed, investigated, some maybe accused, some maybe tried, and if it keeps going this way, eventually we'll be faced with a full-fledged fascist country where dissent means being gassed in a chamber.