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Denver Police Dept. Spying on Sister Antonia? 12/18/02

 

 

 

 

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Post 9/11: Documenting Anti-Arab Harassment

 

 

2005

4/14/05: Guantanamo Detainee Suing US to Get Video of Alleged Torture - Carol Leonnig, The Washington Post

4/11/05: Scapegoated at Columbia: Smearing Joseph Massad - Monique Dols, CounterPunch

4/1/05: Government Wiretaps, Searches Up 75 Percent - AP

2/18/05: Shock and Awe on Civil Liberties; From Lynne Stewart to Ward Churchill--Nicole Colson, CounterPunch

2/14/05: Churchill's right - Robert Jensen, ZNet

2/6/05: Ward Churchill and the Mad Dogs - Alexander Cockburn, CounterPunch

 

2004

12/7/04: Chickens Come Home to Roost--Marjorie Cohn, truthout.org

12/3/04: Terror cops should focus on real deal -- Jim Spencer, Denver Post

12/3/04: Colorado ACLU accuses FBI of spying -- Karen Abbott, Rocky Mountain News

12/3/04: FBI spying allegations supported by records -- Alicia Caldwell, Denver Post

12/3/04: National ACLU's special FBI Spy Files Page of Links

12/2/04: Presenting documentary evidence of FBI political spying,  Colorado ACLU files FOIA request on behalf of 16 organizations (including CCMEP) and 10 individuals -- Colorado ACLU

12/2/04: ACLU: Coloradans monitored by FBI at lawful protests -- Alicia Caldwell, Denver Post

12/2/04: Police in FBI unit violate 'spy files' pact, ACLU says -- Sue Lindsay, Rocky Mountain News

12/2/04: ACLU Seeking FBI Files on Activist Probes -- Curt Anderson, AP

11/16/04: Report on Denver police spying clouded: Auditors complain of restricted access to Joint Terrorism Task Force Files -- Lou Kilzer, Rocky Mountain News

11/10/04: Bush Picks Gonzales to Succeed Ashcroft--Scott Lindlaw, AP

11/9/04: Judge Says Detainees' Trials Are Unlawful, Ruling Is Setback For Bush Policy -- Carol D. Leonnig & John Mintz, Washington Post

11/03/04: Voters Report Problems with Computer Systems--Andy Sullivan, Reuters

10/27/04: Amnesty: US 'War on Terror' Mentality Leads to Torture--AFP

10/18/04: The Other War: Civil Liberties, Three Years After 9/11 -- Elaine Cassel, Counterpunch.org

10/13/04: FBI Questions Hundreds of Muslims Ahead of Tonight's Debate in Arizona--Democracy Now!

10/13/04: Amnesty International: A False Beacon?--Paul de Rooij, CounterPunch

10/12/04: Human Rights Watch: al-Qaida Detainees in US Custody 'Disappeared' -- Sam Dolnick, AP

10/7/04: House About to Strip More Civil Liberties in Name of Anti-terrorism -- Madeleine Baran, NewStandard

10/4/04: I, Moazzam Begg, Demand to Be Freed From Guantanamo --  Moazzam Begg, Los Angeles Times

9/16/04: Why Anti-War Activists Need to Care About Immigrant Rights and Civil Liberties -- United for Peace & Justice

9/14/04: Rumsfeld's dirty war on terror -- Seymour Hersh, The Guardian

9/14/04: Bush team 'knew of abuse' at Guantánamo -- Oliver Burkeman, The Guardian

9/14/04: Racial Profiling Much Worse Since 9/11, Amnesty Says -- Jim Lobe, Inter Press News Service

8/31/04: What Does America have to Fear from Me?--Tariq Ramadan, International Herald Tribune

8/25/04: U.S. judge blasts FBI case against Albany Muslims -- Ellen Wulfhorst, Reuters

8/20/04: Protesters Next on FBI Lists--Marty Logan, Inter Press Service

8/19/04: AUDIO  The Return of COINTELPRO: FBI Launches Nationwide Surveillance Of Activists Ahead of GOP Convention, Interview with Denver's Sarah Bardwell & Mark Silverstein -- Democracy Now!

8/18/04: F.B.I. Goes Knocking in Denver for 'Political Troublemakers' -- Eric Lichtblau, New York Times

8/10/04: ACLU: Big Business Becoming Big Brother--Kim Zetter, Wired News

8/6/04: Arbitrary Imprisonment: a Symbol of Tyranny--Mike Whitney, Counterpunch.org

8/5/04: ‘Sham’ Reviews Begin for Detainees at Guantanamo ‘Hell’--Jessica Azulay, New Standard News

8/4/04: British Detainees Tell Their Stories of Guantánamo Bay--Vikram Dodd & Tania Branigan, The Guardian

7/9/04: Rights Groups Accuse Pentagon of Subverting Court Ruling on Guantanamo Detainees--Jim Lobe, OneWorld.net

7/7/04: The Supreme Court and Enemy Combatants, Part I--Marc Norton, CounterPunch

6/29/04: Hamdi, Padilla and Rasul v. Rumsfeld and Bush, Who Really Won?--Elaine Cassel, CounterPunch

6/28/04: Supreme Court Deals Blow to War on Terror--James Vicini, Reuters

6/11/04: A Long Record of Abusing Jailed Foreigners in U.S.--Mark Dow, Los Angeles Times

6/10/04: Don't believe it? It happens here, too--Abuse Claims Detailed in Jail-Search Accord--Sam Stanton and Denny Walsh, The Sacramento Bee

5/19/04: The Prisoner Abuse Scandal at Home--Michelle Goldberg, Salon.com

4/28/04: Blunkett to Legislate for "Thought Crimes" and Guilt By Association--Richard Tyler

4/21/04: U.S. Military is 'Detaining' Over 20,000 Iraqi People --  Aaron Glantz, Inter Press Service

4/7/04: Axis of Execution: American Justice Ranked Alongside World's Most Repressive Regimes--Justin Huggler, The Independent (UK)

4/6/04: Into the Shadows: Guantanamo World -- Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com

3/31/04: Email Spying and Attorney Client Privilege--J. Michael Springmann, Counterpunch

3/17/04: An Imam in Exile: Haddad breaks his silence -- Ann Mullen,  Detroit Metro Times

3/15/04: ACLU files First Amendment suit over "security zone" at NATO conference in Colorado Springs -- News Release

3/14/04: My Hell in Camp X-Ray -- Rosa Prince & Gary Jones, The Mirror

3/10/04: Learning to Love Big Brother: George Bush Channels George Orwell--Daniel Kurtzman, MSN Online

2/18/04: Suit Against Ashcroft Claims Department has Bungled War on Terror --Shannon McCaffrey, Knight-Ridder

2/17/04: Government Withdrawal of Drake Protest Subpoenas Targeting National Lawyers Guild Is Victory For Free Speech -- Marjorie Cohn, Jurist

2/12/04: Today's COINTELPRO: Part II, A thousand J. Edgar Hoovers -- Michelle Goldberg, Salon

    Part I, Outlawing dissent: Focus on Infiltration of Colorado Coalition Against the War --  Michelle Goldberg, Salon

2/11/04: U.S. Officials Drop Activist Subpoenas: Judge lifts Drake gag order in probe of anti-war protest -- Jeff Eckhoff & Mark Siebert, Des Moines Register

2/9/04: Right to Protest at Risk -- Judy Ettenhofer, Madison Capital Times

2/5/04: A Post-Absurd, Post-Camp Activist Moment: Turning NYC into a Patriot Act Free Zone --  Benjamin Shepard, Counterpunch.org

1/23/04: Canadian Sues US for Deporting Him to Syria for Torture -- Agence France Presse

1/21/04: Bush Pushes Plan to Permit Internet Surveillance--Haider Rizvi, Inter Press Service

1/19/04: The Guantanamo Concentration Camp: Wrong Treatment in the Wrong Place -- Marjorie Cohn, Counterpunch.org

1/10/04: Green Party "Terrorists" -- Frederick Sweet, Intervention Magazine

1/4/04: Quarantining Dissent: How the Secret Service Protects Bush from Free Speech -- James Bovard, San Francisco Chronicle

1/3/04: Black Hawk helicopters over Las Vegas, snipers in Times Square: 2004 begins with massive military mobilization in US cities -- David Walsh, World Socialist Website

 

2003

12/27/03: Police Infiltrate Denver Peace Protest: Protesters Cry Foul, Claim Their Actions Were Nonviolent -- Berny Morson, Rocky Mountain News

12/20/03: The Nameless and the Detained: The Desaparecidos of George W. Bush -- Bruce Jackson, Counterpunch.org

12/10/03: Delivered Into Hell by US War on Terror -- Maher Arar, Los Angeles Times

12/5/03: Amistad Revisited At Guantanamo? -- Jeremy Brecher, Hartford Courant

11/26/03: The War on Dissent: Heavy-handed Police and Propaganda Tactics Brought Baghdad to Miami -- Naomi Klein,  Toronto Globe & Mail

11/25/03: The Miami Model: Paramilitaries, Embedded Journalists and Illegal Protests. Think This is Iraq? It’s Your Country -- Jeremy Scahill, CommonDreams.org

11/25/03: Ashcroft's Cointelpro: Neutralizing Dissent in America --  David Lindorff, Counterpunch.org

11/23/03: Further Creating a Culture of Fear?  F.B.I. Spying on Anti-War Organizations -- New York Times

11/21/03: Going Backwards: Patriot Act Expansion Moves Through Congress -- Jim Lobe, OneWorld.net

11/16/03: Sami Al-Arian and the Dungeon: A Fable for Our Time? -- Sarah Shields, CommonDreams.org

11/11/03: AUDIO & TRANSCRIPT Canadian Man Deported by U.S. Details Torture in Syria -- Democracy Now

11/6/03: This is What They Did to Me: They Put a Bag Over My Head & Flew Me To Syria for Torture and Interrogation -- Maher Arar, Counterpunch.org

11/6/03: They Can Take You Away & Tell No One: The Case of Maher Arar -- Elaine Cassel, Counterpunch.org

10/28/03: Snoops R Us:  9/11 and Ashcroft's Crackdown -- Seth Sandronsky, Counterpunch.org

10/24/03: Ashcroft's War on Greenpeace: Sailor-Mongering Civil Disobedience -- Kurt Nimmo, Counterpunch.org

10/20/03: Does Denver trust its law officers?  The self-appointed civilian watchdogs in Denver CopWatch aren't so sure. -- Elana Ashanti Jefferson, Denver Post Staff Writer

10/18/03: VIDEO  So You're Living in a Police State? -- Stephen Colbert, The Daily Show

10/9/03: 9/11 and the LA 8 -- David Cole, The Nation

10/9/03: Colorado Springs Protesters' Rights Violated, ACLU Says -- Dick Foster, Rocky Mountain News

10/5/03: "If he is a target, then we are all targets.." Motives for the Arrest of Abdurahman Alamoudi -- Ahmed Yousef & Betty Molchany, Palestine Chronicle

10/2/03: Chicago City Council Passes Resolution Condemning the USA Patriot Act. -- John Dobberstein, Daily Southtown

10/01/03: US Muslim "Witch Hunt" Not an Overstatement--Ramzy Baroud, The Palestine Chronicle

9/29/03: Human Shields Had Freedom of Speech on Their Side -- Editorial, Oracle

9/26/03: Kucinich Leads Move in Congress to Curb Controversial Patriot Act -- Sabrina Eaton, Cleveland Plain Dealer

9/11/03: Locking Down Democracy to Keep America Free -- Jim Hightower, CommonDreams

9/9/03: Next Time You Fly, Are You 'Rated' Green, Yellow Red? -- Sara Kehaulani Goo, Washington Post

9/7/03: Big Brother Takes Grip on America -- Paul Harris, The Observer

9/6/03: A Legal Netherworld: The Forgotten Prisoners of Guantanamo --  Elaine Cassel, Counterpunch.org

9/3/03: The US  Government Wanted 'To Make an Example Out of Me:' Young Webmaster Heads to Prison for Political Website -- Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!

8/23/03: The Case of Faith Fippinger: A First Amendment Right to be a Human Shield -- Julie Hilden, Counterpunch.org 

8/22/03: Safety panel urges 'spy files' inquiry, Recommendations will go to mayor -- George Merritt, Denver Post

8/11/03: Homeland Security for Whom? Are Bush, Ashcroft, and Wolfowitz Protecting America or Their Own Regime? -- Douglas Valentine, Counterpunch.org

8/8/03: Freedom of Cartoonists?--Bryan Robinson, ABC News.com

7/31/03: Librarians Chafe Under USA Patriot Act--Judith Kohler, Associated Press

7/31/03: Arab Groups in US File Lawsuit Seeking to Curb Patriot Act--Lyle Denniston, Boston Globe

7/21/03: Report on USA Patriot Act Alleges Civil Rights Violations--Philip Shehon, New York Times

7/14/03: Civil Liberties After September 11--Tom Stephens, CounterPunch

7/12/03: Terrorism against the Constitution: Appeals Court denies Hamdi access to lawyer -- Elaine Cassel, Counterpunch

7/11/03: The UK businessmen trapped in Guantanamo-- Vikram Dodd, The Guardian

7/7/03: Britain, EU Set to Protest U.S. Military Tribunals at Guantanamo--Jim Lobe, OneWorld.net

7/7/03: 130 U.S. Communities Saying No to Repression--Jim Lobe, OneWorld.net

7/5/03: Lawyers furious as US builds death chambers -- Frances Gibb and Tim Reid, The Times (UK)

7/4/03: Website turns tables on government officials -- Hiawatha Bray, Boston Globe

7/02/03: U.S. Punishes 35 Countries for Signing Onto Int'l Court--Jim Lobe, InterPress Service

6/20/03: New U.S. Court Ruling Sanctions Secret Arrests-- Jim Lobe

6/13/03: U.S. Will Tighten Rules on Holding Terror Suspects--Eric Lichtblau, New York Times

6/13/03: Ashcroft Pushing Patriot II--Bill Straub, Scripps Howard News Service

6/7/03: More than 13,000 may face deportation --- Rachel Swarns, New York Times

6/3/03: U.S. Report Faults Roundup of Illegal Immigrants After 9/11 -- Eric Lichtblau, N.Y. Times

6/2/03: Nazi Germany's War on Terrorism--Information Clearing House

5/31/03: Wake up, America! Or is it already too late? -- Elaine Cassel, Counterpunch

5/30/03: Calling for a media crimes tribunal -- Danny Schechter, commondreams.org

5/28/03: The "War On Terror" At Home: We're All Victims Of The State--CAMPACC

5/28/03: Police Doubted Spy Files Legality as Early as 2000--Jim Kirksey, Denver Post

5/22/03: Denver Controls Spy Files--Brian Crecente, Rocky Mountain News

5/22/03: 'Spy Files' Shared With FBI, Others--Mike McPhee, Denver Post

5/20/03: State Monitored War Protestors--Ian Hoffman, Sean Holstage and Josh Richman, Oakland Tribune

5/19/03: Hollywood Goes Paranoid--Joanne Ostrow, The Denver Post

5/19/03:  An Orwellian Future?  US to Fingerprint Most Foreign Visitors--Suzanne Gamboa, Associated Press

5/19/03: St. Louis crackdown on environmental and social justice activists during World Agricultural Forum--St. Louis Indymedia

5/17/03: Fascism anyone? Laurence W. Britt, Free Inquiry Magazine

5/16/03: Weasel words -- Sally Bolton, The Guardian

5/13/03: 100th Anti-Patriot Act Resolution Passed In Broward, Florida-- Jennifer Van Bergen, Truthout

5/7/03: New 'Spy-File' Revelations:  Springs cops monitored activists for two decades; appear to have shared info with FBI -- Terje Langeland, Colorado Springs Independent

5/3/03: Feeling the Boot Heel of the Patriot Act -- Jason Halperin, Los Angeles Times

4/29/03: Rivals drub absent Zavaras:  Mayoral candidates gang up on ex-chief at 'spy files' forum --  Robert Sanchez, Rocky Mountain News

4/29/03: Papers hint Denver 'spy' info shared with FBI, lawyer says -- Owen S. Good, Rocky Mountain News

4/25/03: The Other War: The Bush Administration and the End of Civil Liberties -- Elaine Cassel, Counterpunch

4/25/03: Ugly history of Denver spy files must live on -- Jim Spencer, Denver Post

4/25/03: Board leans on 4 cops, Panel wants 'spy file' input from reluctant officers -- Kevin Vaughan, Rocky Mountain News

4/23/03: 'No Fly' List Is Challenged in a Lawsuit -- Eric Lichtblau, New York Times

4/22/03: Editorial: Spy file settlement too long in coming -- Rocky Mountain News

4/21/03: Officials rise up to defy the Patriot Act - Evelyn Nieves, Washington Post

4/19/03: A Chill Wind Is Blowing in This Nation -- Tim Robbins, National Press Club Address

4/19/03: Der Fuerhrer: Then and Now -- Konrad Heiden, www.voices4change.org

4/19/03: Editorial: Shameful 'spy' episode over -- Denver Post

4/18/03: First Spy Files Law Suit Settled -- By Mike McPhee, Denver Post

4/18/03: Denver Police Chief vows compliance to new spy files policy -- Jim Kirksey, Denver Post

4/18/03: 'Spy files' settlement places restrictions on how police intelligence gathering can be done -- Kevin Vaughan, Rocky Mountain News

4/18/03: Panel urged to continue spy probe, Settlement means people may not get full story, lawyer says -- Owen S. Good, Rocky Mountain News

4/17/03: Denver 'Spy files' case settled -- Associated Press

4/17/03: Denver Police to Stop Keeping Spy Files -- Robert Weller, Asssociated Press

4/17/03: Denver to Halt 'Spy Files' on Peaceful Organizers -- Reuters

4/10/03: NY Police Admit Keeping Anti-War Protest Database -- Grant McCool, Reuters

4/8/03: Republicans Want Terror Law Made Permanent -- Eric Lichtblau, New York Times

4/2/03: Charges against local Pakistanis labeled 'absurd' -- John Ingold, Denver Post

3/28/03: MTV drops war-themed pop videos--Jason Deans, The Guardian (UK)

3/28/03: United Way Cancels Sarandon Appearance--AP

3/27/03: Ashcroft's Bill of Rights Makes an Appearance in Denver: Angry judge orders bail set for Iraqi brothers in Denver -- Howard Pankratz, Denver Post

3/24/03: U.S. Steps Up Secret Surveillance -- Dan Eggen and Robert O'Harrow Jr., Washington Post

3/24/03: It's Denver's job to restore trust broken by spy files -- Letter to the Editor, by Gail Bundy, Denver Post

3/21/03: Iraqis in U.S. targeted -- Michael Riley and Eric Gorski, Denver Post 

3/13/03: AUDIO, VIDEO & NARRATIVE  Monitoring Protesters: Targets of surveillance -- MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour

3/13/03: 'Spy files' negotiations continue -- John Ingold, Denver Post

3/13/03: 'Spy files' panel subpoenas police -- Kevin Vaughan, Rocky Mountain News

3/13/03: The War on Immigrants: Detained in America -- Elaine Cassel, CounterPunch

3/12/03: Sleuthing out a settlement: ACLU, city lawyers will meet today in 'spy files' dispute -- Kevin Vaughan, Rocky Mountain News

3/11/03: Spy-files' talks end with no agreement:  10-hour marathon fails to settle suit against city -- Kieran Nicholson, Denver Post

3/11/03: Denver, ACLU attempt to settle -- Kevin Vaughan & Hector Gutierrez,  Rocky Mountain News

3/8/03: Patriot Act II's attacks on citizenship -- Joanne Mariner, Counterpunch

3/6/03: City, ACLU ordered to settle 'spy' suit -- Amy Herdy, Denver Post

3/6/03: Pursuing a 'spy files' settlement -- Kevin Vaughan, Rocky Mountain News

3/3/03: Treated Like a Criminal: How the INS Stole Three Days of My Life --  Behrooz Arshadi, The Progressive

3/2/03: In the Time of Disappeared People: Patriot II means Permanent National Emergency -- Black Commentator

3/1/03: Act of defiance: New Mexicans rally against 'USA Patriot Act' -- by Steve Terrell, Santa Fe New Mexican

3/1/03: "Spy files" suit asks too much -- Editorial, Rocky Mountain News

2/28/03: High school junior suspended after posting antiwar fliers -- Chris Frates, Denver Post

2/28/03: "Spy files" settlement stuck? -- Kevin Vaughn, Rocky Mountain News

2/28/03: Webb tackles spy-files lawsuit -- Cindy Brovsky, Denver Post

2/28/03: New York City Against the People--Ellen Cantarow, CounterPunch

2/28/03: A Duty to Disobey All Unlawful Orders--Laurence Mosqueda, CounterPunch

2/27/03: My day at the peace rally -- David Frum, RockymountainIndymedia.org

2/26/03: As the Thumbscrew Turns: The Arrest of Sami al-Arian is Only the Beginning -- Kurt Nimmo, CounterPunch

2/21/03: A revolutionary spirit in a hostile world: The real Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Alan Maass, Counterpunch

2/21/03: New spy-file policy challenged-- Amy Herdy, Denver Post

2/19/03: Cop 'spying' allegations piling up -- Kevin Vaughan, Rocky Mountain News

2/19/03: Spy Files: Keep DPD honest (including Denver Post editorial) -- Ernesto Vigil, Denver Post

2/11/03: YellowTimes.org Shut Down! -- Firas Al-Atraqchi, Anti-War.com

2/10/03: Leaked Version of PATRIOT-ACT II -- PDF File obtained by Center for Public Integrity

2/9/03: 'Justice' Department Drafts Sweeping Expansion of Anti-Terrorism Act -- Charles Lewis and Adam Mayle, The Public i

2/9/03: American Indian Movement Activist blames Denver spy files on bias --  John Ingold and Amy Herdy, Denver Post

2/8/03: Homeland Insecurity: Champaign-Urbana's International Community Shaken by New INS Rules -- Olive Lowell, CounterPunch

2/8/03: 1500 pages of Denver Spy files Released -- Owen S. Good, Rocky Mountain News

2/7/03: City reportedly vetoed spy-files settlement--Amy Herdy, Denver Post

2/7/03: Deal on 'spy files' is elusive--Kevin Vaughan, Rocky Mountain News

2/4/03: Denver Police Argument: We Were Right to Spy on Peaceful Protestors -- Amy Herdy, Denver Post

2/4/03: Denver Cops accused of spying on journalists -- Kevin Vaughan, Rocky Mountain News

2/4/03: Iranian Bicyclist Circles Globe for Peace Arrested by US Government -- Charlie LeDuff, New York Times

1/25/03: Arabs should stop apologizing -- Linda Heard, Palestine Chronicle

1/25/03: FBI Taps Campus Police in Anti-Terror Operations --Dan Eggen, Washington Post

1/24/03: Zavaras vows review of spy files -- Kieran Nicholson, Denver Post

1/22/03: Police, Air Force investigators may have worked on 'spy files' -- Rocky Mountain News

1/20/03: If elected mayor, Mares would curb Denver police surveillance -- Matt Larson, The Denver Post

1/20/03: Mares wants a 'spy file' panel: Candidate says cops should only collect data on lawbreakers -- Kevin Vaughan, Rocky Mountain News

1/24/03: Zavaras vows review of spy files -- Kieran Nicholson, Denver Post

1/22/03: Police, Air Force investigators may have worked on 'spy files' -- Rocky Mountain News

1/20/03: If elected mayor, Mares would curb Denver police surveillance -- Matt Larson, The Denver Post

1/20/03: Mares wants a 'spy file' panel: Candidate says cops should only collect data on lawbreakers -- Kevin Vaughan, Rocky Mountain News

1/17/03: Citizens urge panel to probe police spy files -- Amy Herdy, Denver Post

1/17/03: Public hearings urged on 'spy files' -- John C. Ensslin, Rocky Mountain News

1/14/03: ACLU Calls For Congress to Investigate Arab, Muslim Detentions -- Jim Lobe, OneWorld.net

1/14/03: Ashcroft touts faith-based plan amidst protestors in Denver -- Charlie Brennan, Rocky Mountain News

1/12/03: Iranian CU junior jailed over class load fears others at risk during INS registration -- Dave Curtin, Denver Post

1/12/03: Denver Spy Files: They Know When You Are Sleeping -- Kathy Pollitt, The Nation

1/11/03: Suspicion Surrounds Foreign Registration -- Dave Curtin, Denver Post

1/11/03: Hundreds Protest INS Registration -- Wyatt Buchanan, San Francisco Chronicle

1/6/03: Spy-file scrutiny unsettles targets, Cop says citizens' worries unfounded -- Amy Herdy, Denver Post

1/6/03: Desperately Seeking Emmanuel Goldstein -- Kurt Nimmo, Counter Punch

1/5/03: The Denver Police Get Their Say: Police intelligence activity common -- John Ingold, Denver Post

1/5/03: Bush Administration to Require All US Citizens Traveling Abroad to Reveal Travel Plans... -- Toronto Star 1/4/03: Police could take home 'spy files' -- Kevin Vaughan, Rocky Mountain News

1/3/03: Spy-files Policy In Dispute: City Official Says No Such Directive Existed While Zavaras Was Police Chief--Amy Herdy, Denver Post

1/2/03: New account of US torture of Afghan and Arab prisoners -- Patrick Martin, World Socialist Website

 

2002

12/30/02: Activist Community Strikes Back at The Denver Post -- Letters to the Editor

12/27/02: Denver Post seeks full disclosure of police spy files -- Amy Herdy, Denver Post

12/26/02: Six Mideast Students Jailed for Cutting Course Hours--Dave Curtin, Denver Post

12/24/02: Police chief seeks internal spy-files probe: Denver spokeswoman confirms report -- Amy Herdy, Denver Post

12/25/02: Denver Auditor requests records on spy files -- Amy Herdy, Denver Post

12/23/02: Former Denver Manager of Safety Tries to Wash his Hands Clean of Spy Files -- By Amy Herdy, Denver Post

12/23/02: Zavaras: Spy file abuse a surprise; He believed policy was being followed in info gathering -- Owen S. Good, Rocky Mountain News

12/22/02: All Nation's Alliance Prods Mayoral Candidates Spy Files -- Amy Herdy, Denver Post

12/21/02: Going Electronic, Denver Reveals Long-Term Surveillance --  Ford Fessenden with Michael Moss, New York Times

12/18/02: Denver Spy Files: What's in the depositions -- Rocky Mountain News

12/18/02: Denver Spy Files: Excerpts from the depositions -- Rocky Mountain News

12/10/02: Coercive Interrogation: You Have No Right to Remain Silent -- Joanne Mariner, Counterpunch

12/7/02: Suffocated, Beaten, Hooded & Shackled: An American Officer on the Treatment of al-Qaeda and Taliban Prisoners -- Robert Fisk, The Independent

12/7/02: Denver Police Arrest Man Using Camera Near VP Dick Cheney:  The Kafkaesque Police State of the USA-Patriot Act -- Kurt Nimmo, Counterpunch

12/4/02: The Latest New "War on Terrorism" -- Michael Shehadeh, CounterPunch

11/26/02: Innocent Until Proven Arab -- Anai Rhoads, endthewar.org

11/26/02: Colorado Muslims report more hate crimes -- Will Ryan, The Denver Post

11/22/02: US to Set Up 'Big Brother' Citizen Database--E. Monaghan & T. Reid in Washington, Times/UK

11/21/02: A Secret Burial for the Bill of Rights--C.Norris, CounterPunch

11/20/02: Welcome to the American Gestapo--D.Thompson, Capitol Hill Blue

11/19/02: Iraqis living in US to be tracked -- Oliver Burkeman, The Guardian

11/12/02: U.S. Wants Prints Of Muslim Visitors, Arab Rights Groups Denounce Plan -- Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post

11/9/02: Photos of Hooded Terror Prisoners Rekindle Debate -- Stephanie Nolen, Toronto Globe & Mail

10/25/02: ACLU Sues Bush Administration for Data on Surveillance Methods--AP

10/01/02: You are Either with us or You're Fired!--Michael Moore, letter and petition

9/26/02: Smear Mongers--Paul de Rooij, Palestine Chronicle

9/16/02  A Conversation with my Arab-American Self--Tarif Abboushi, Counterpunch

9/05/02: War on Terror Ignites Battle Over Course of US Justice-- Paul Knox, The Toronto Globe & Mail

9/04/02: Hundreds file requests to see cops' 'spy files' -- Carol Kreck, Denver Post

9/04/02: Citizens pour out to see "spy files"-- Eric Galatas, Indymedia

8/29/02: Islam and Politics--Fawzia Afzal-Khan, Counterpunch

8/28/02: Bush's Secret Visa Courts After Sept 11 Ruled Illegal -- Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles, Guardian/UK 

8/25/02: Flight of the Phoenix: From Vietnam to Homeland Security:  An Open Letter to Maj. Gen. Bruce Lawlor -- Douglas Valentine, Counterpunch

8/06/02: Rounding up the Enemy--Chisun Lee, Village Voice

7/27/02: Foundations are in place for Martial Law in the US - by Ritt Goldstein, Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)

7/16/02: Planned volunteer-informant corps elicits '1984' fears - by By Ellen Sorokin, The Washington Times

7/04/02: Activists Slam Report on Spy Files--Peggy Lowe, Rocky Mt. News

 6/24/02: FBI Begins Visiting Libraries--Christopher Newton, Associated Press

6/10/02:  U.N. Official Seeks Scrutiny of Anti-Terrorism Measures - Thalif Deen, Common Dreams

 6/07/02: FBI Rules Creating Fear--Micheal deYoanna, Colorado Daily

 6/03/02: American Civil Liberties Union Says...--Laura W. Murphy, Common Dreams

 3/28/02: ACLU of Colorado files class action lawsuit challenging Denver police spyfiles on peaceful protest activities

 3/28/02: After Raids, Muslims Speak Out for Rights - Rosalind S. Helderman, Washington Post

3/25/02: Terrorism Fears Push Md. Toward Wider Police Power - Matthew Mosk

3/22/02: Denver Police Spied on Activists by Julie Cart

3/21/02: US Government Raids Muslim Homes and Offices - Council on American-Islamic Relations

3/21/02: New "Voluntary" Interviews Create Perception of Profiling - Council on American-Islamic Relations

3/20/02: Webb has police scrambling: Mayor enforces new civil rights resolution - Sean Kelly, Denver Post

3/19/02: Denver Council resolution opposes police spying - Peggy Lowe, Rocky Mountain News

3/17/02: Activists: Police files will hurt free speech - Allison Sherry, Denver Post

3/15/02: Hundreds of Arabs Still Detained in U.S. Jails - Reuters

3/14/02: All Nations Alliance Condemns Mayor's Inadequate Response to Spy File-Gate

3/13/02: Statement from Denver Mayor Wellington Webb re: Police Intelligence Records

3/12/02: Police 'spy files' assailed - ACLU criticism spurs city review of log on protesters - Sean Kelly, Denver Post

3/12/02: Cops have 'spy files,' groups say - Sarah Huntley, Rocky Mountain News

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3/12/02: US sends suspects to face torture - Duncan Campbell, The Guardian

2/26/02: The Disappeared of the US - Andrew Gumbel, The Independent

2/25/02: The ADL Spying Case Is Over, But The Struggle Continues  - Jeffrey Blankfort, Anne Poirier and Steve Zeltzer, Counterpunch

2/20/02: Revealed: Pentagon's new black propaganda unit - Rupert Cornwell

1/4/02: The FBI's Black Magic? - David Corn

 

2001

12/20/01: The First Victim in the War on Terror - John Chuckman
12/18/01: The Taliban of the West - The Guardian

12/12/01: Ashcroft's Jihad - Laura Murphy

12/08/01: Ashcroft's Perfect Timing - Laura Flanders

12/07/01: Why New Law-Enforcement Powers Worry Civil Libertarians - Seattle Times

12/05/01: Out of Balance: The USA Patriot Act and Ashcroft's Justice Department - Susan Herman

12/03/01: Police-FBI Roundups Not New - Earl Ofari Hutchinson

12/01/01: The USA PATRIOT Act: What's So Patriotic About Trampling on the Bill of Rights? - Center for Constitutional Rights

11/30/01: Suspicious Minds: Disappeared in the Southland - Jordan Green

11/30/01: Egyptian Police Arrest Al-Ahram Weekly Webmaster for Posting a Poem Online

11/27/01: Waking Up in Another Country, Not Our Own - Paul Coggins

11/26/01: Who's afraid of the Women in Black? - Daily Texan Online

11/22/01: City of Portland says "No" to FBI - AP

11/20/01: Moving Toward A Police State (Or Have We Arrived?) - Michael Ratner

11/18/01: New Federal Patriot Act Turns Retailers into Spies against Customers, Boston Globe

11/12/01: Who's Reading Your E-Mail? - Michael Ratner

11/12/01: Dep't of Justice "Field Guilde" for new anti-terrorism (USA-PATRIOT Act) legislation (pdf file)

11/10/01: The New USA PATRIOT Act: By Any Means Necessary, Patricia Williams

11/9/01: Homeland Insecurity: Phoenix, Chaos, The Enterprise, and The Politics of Terror In America, Douglas Valentine

11/9/01: The New USA PATRIOT Act, John Kaminski

11/9/01: Government Proposes to Eavesdrop on Phone Calls Between Lawyers and Clients in Terrorist Probe, AP

11/7/01: USA PATRIOT Act Analysis, Sean McAllister

11/7/01: Ayatollah Asscraft: Patriot Act Unpatriotic, Counterpunch                                               

11/7/01: Greens, Airports and ID Cards, Cockburn & St. Clair

11/5/01: Behind the USA Patriot Act, Ann Harrison

11/2/01: Foreigners are shackled, then jailed and denied their rights in FBI crackdown, The Independent

11/3/01: Barred at the Gate: Interview with Green Party official detained at Maine airport, Counterpunch

11/2/01: Green Party USA coordinator detained at airport because of anti-war views, Mitch Cohen

11/2/01: U.S. teen vows court battle over anti-war stance, Reuters

10/30/01: Martin Luther King: A Domestic Terrorist? - Ira Chernus

10/26/01: Going Backwards: Anti-Terrorist Bill Passes to Groups' Dismay, Jim

10/22/01: Human Rights Watch Criticizes Anti-Terrorism Legislation

10/19/01: Attack on the Bill of Rights, Marty Jezer

10/13/01 Humor: Liberties Curtailed in Defense of Liberties, the Onion, America's Favorite News Source

 

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