FBI monitored British activists

[Lori Price CLG]

FBI monitored British activists

Agents tapped the phones and read emails of animal rights campaigners

American special agents were so concerned about the activities of Britain's leading animal rights extremists that they tapped their phones and intercepted their emails over a six-month period as part of a covert surveillance operation.

According to documents filed in a US court, between November 2002 and the following April the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) made a series of applications to judges that allowed it to monitor conversations between the UK leaders of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (Shac), the group that campaigns to close the Cambridgeshire-based animal research firm Huntingdon Life Sciences, and their US counterparts.

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Lori Price

[hippiepunk]

1. Because apparently they are much

more dangerous than Bin Laden

[Demeter]

9. Or Terry Randall and His Posse n/t

[Lori Price CLG]

10. Well, they are not on Rove's payroll, as bin Laden is. n/t

[miss_kitty]

2. Shocking!

Who'd have guessed? :P

[libodem]

3. Believe me....

if you ever thought spy vs spy in, Mad, magazine, was funny...wait until this, New World Order, takes hold.:tinfoilhat:

[MisterP]

4. think CommodeUs will gun down the HSUS?

y'know, Animal Planet's "Animal Cops"?

[punpirate]

5. And how, exactly...

... did this relate to criminal activity in the US? More attempts to describe eco-terrorism as the current scourge of US corporations, I suspect.

The end result of this should be interesting, especially since it could not be done without the expressed allowance of Blair's government and MI5.

Wonder how the British feel being spied upon by American FBI? Not too pleased about it, I imagine....

[ngGale]

6. Yep, what a surprise the...

eco-terrorists - jump back jack, they might hit you with a pie in the face! What priorities this country has, and doing it to the Brits to...

[rodeodance]

7. So, do the Brits version of their FBI monitor us?

[saigon68]

8. Only the Bush Criminals--

Have that right.