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ACLU urges Congress to oversee intelligence-gathering centers
- The American Civil Liberties Union is calling on Congress to monitor intelligence-gathering centers across the country, warning that a de facto domestic intelligence system might be in the works. The so-called “Fusion Centers” are state, local and regional institutions that were originally created to bolster anti-terrorism intelligence sharing among different law enforcement agencies, according to the ACLU.
Scrutiny over spying on activists reaches House
- A Mississippi congressman who chairs a House committee that oversees the Department of Homeland Security is leading a charge to scrutinize the Maryland State Police investigation into peace and anti-death penalty groups.
State police come under Hill scrutiny
- A Mississippi congressman who chairs a House committee that oversees the Department of Homeland Security is leading a charge to scrutinize the Maryland State Police investigation into peace and anti-death penalty groups.
Lawmakers call for probe into police spying
- State police soon may come under fire at a hearing among state lawmakers who are questioning the authority of spies who infiltrated peace and anti-death penalty activist groups for more than a year.
O'Malley: Stop monitoring protesters
- Governor Martin O’Malley blasted the administration of former Gov. Robert Ehrlich Friday for allowing a police investigation of peace activists to continue for 14 months.
