FBI Monitoring Anti-War Protesters
The FBI had directed intelligence-gathering efforts targeting anti-war demonstrators and organizors in the name of anti-terrorism. In a memo sent to local law enforcement agencies, the FBI listed legal and illegal activities of protesters and encouraged the monitoring of these activities. While FBI officials claim that the intelligence-gathering is aimed at identifying anarchists and "extremist elements" plotting violence, the moves harken back to the J. Edgar Hoover era of the FBI, in which the bureau routinely spied on and disrupted activists.
FBI reportedly collecting information on antiwar demonstrators
The New York Times, November 23, 2003
