ACLU Says FBI Spying on Religious, Protest Groups
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The American Civil Liberties Union  on Thursday accused the FBI and local police of spying on  political and faith-based groups and formally asked the  government for information about such FBI surveillance.
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The FBI was acting illegally when it used the USA Patriot Act to covertly obtain telephone, business and financial records about people living in the United States, according to an audit by the Justice Department. By the Associated Press.
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About 60 charities, churches and other tax-exempt groups are being investigated for potentially breaking federal rules that bar them from participating in political activity, the Internal Revenue Service said Friday.
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WASHINGTON - FBI agents conducted searches yesterday at the headquarters of a leading pro-Israel lobby and delivered grand-jury subpoenas in an investigation of alleged espionage for Israel, federal officials and the lobby group said.
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The F.B.I. has been questioning demonstrators in an effort to forestall violent protests at the Republican convention.
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For more than two years, the FBI has been investigating whether classified intelligence has been passed to Israel by the American Israel Political Action Committee, an influential
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The Philippines has put rights activists, including a former U.S. attorney-general and members of church groups, on an immigration blacklist drawn up ostensibly to stop terrorists from entering, a rights group said on Friday.
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A Connecticut Islamic leader said Thursday that FBI agents raided his home as part of an investigation into a Sudanese charity that federal officials have accused of supporting Osama bin Laden and other terrorists.
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The FBI has launched a new drive to  seek information from Muslim and Arab Americans to help thwart  any pre-election attack, a move some communities consider a  racist campaign which will not make America safer.
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The FBI abused its power by illegally or improperly obtaining telephone, financial and other secret records in investigations of terrorism or espionage suspects, the U.S. Justice Department's inspector general said on Friday.
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A major U.S. association of evangelical Christians has condemned torture by the U.S. military and reaffirmed its commitment to environmental activism, positions that highlight broader splits in a movement associated with conservative causes.
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The FBI illegally or improperly obtained information on the US public, a new justice department report says.
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Federal officials ignored a host of privacy issues raised during a public comment period on the controversial Real ID Act, ACLU officials charge -- hoping apparently to palm off the problems on the next administration.
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The American Civil Liberties Union on Thursday filed its fifth religion-related lawsuit in 13 years alleging that a Lousiana principal improperly allowed people to distribute Bibles to students
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The Pentagon is investigating new allegations by a civil liberties group that military interrogators at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay posed as FBI agents while using abusive techniques to question detainees.
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A civil rights group filed complaints with utility commissions and attorneys general in 20 states Wednesday, demanding that authorities probe whether phone companies broke laws by sharing customer records with the government&#039;s biggest spy agency.