Dear ,

I wanted to make sure you saw Dr. Paul's
recent column on FBI surveillance operations on "subversive"
organizations.

And as Dr. Paul points out, The FBI has a
long history of targeting Americans whose political beliefs and
activities threaten the FBI's power or the power of influential
politicians.
Dr. Paul explains how Campaign for Liberty
and other organizations, including the Cato Institute and the
Reason Foundation, may have been subjected to FBI surveillance
and other data collection!
This is yet another example of how brazen the
FBI and their Deep State pals have become in their efforts to
show they're the real power in charge, not the American people or
our duly elected officials.
And why Congress should refuse to reauthorize
the so-called "USA Freedom Act" -- the crown jewel of their
domestic spying programs.
Campaign for Liberty will keep you up-to-date
on this looming battle and our plans strike at the root of Deep
State power. For now, please read Dr. Paul's column, and then,
forward it to your family, friends, and coworkers.

And chip in $100, $75, $50, or whatever you
can afford to support Campaign for Liberty's efforts to halt the
FBI and their Deep State pals' unconstitutional domestic spying
schemes.

In Liberty,

Norm Singleton
President




How Expansive is
FBI Spying?

by Ron Paul, C4L Chairman

Cato Institute Research Fellow Patrick
Eddington recently filed several Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA) requests to find out if the Federal Bureau of
Investigation ever conducted surveillance of several
organizations dealing with government policy, including my
Campaign for Liberty. Based on the FBI's response, Campaign for
Liberty and other organizations, including the Cato Institute and
the Reason Foundation, may have been subjected to FBI
surveillance or other data collection.

I say "may have been" because the FBI gave
Mr. Eddington a "Glomar response" to his FOIA requests pertaining
to these organizations. A Glomar response is where an agency says
it can "neither confirm nor deny" involvement in a particular
activity. Glomar was a salvage ship the Central Intelligence
Agency used to recover a sunken Soviet submarine in the 1970s. In
response to a FOIA request by Rolling Stone magazine, the CIA
claimed that just confirming or denying the Glomar's involvement
in the salvage operation would somehow damage national security.
A federal court agreed with the agency, giving federal
bureaucrats, and even local police departments, a new way to
avoid giving direct answers.

The Glomar response means these organizations
may have been, and may still be, subjected to federal
surveillance. As Mr. Eddington told Reason magazine, "We know for
a fact that Glomar invocations have been used to conceal actual,
ongoing activities, and we also know that they're not passing out
Glomars like candy."

Protecting the right of individuals to join
together in groups to influence government policy is at the very
heart of the First Amendment. Therefore, the FBI subjecting such
groups to surveillance can violate the constitutional rights of
everyone involved with the groups.

The FBI has a long history of targeting
Americans whose political beliefs and activities threaten the
FBI's power or the power of influential politicians. The
then-named Bureau of Investigation participated in the crackdown
on people suspected of being communists in the post-World War I
"Red Scare." The anti-communist crackdown was headed by a young
agent named J. Edgar Hoover who went on to become FBI director, a
position he held until his death. Hoover kept and expanded his
power by using the FBI to collect blackmail material on people
including politicians.

In the 1930s and 1940s, the FBI spied on
supporters of the America First movement, including several
Congress members. Two of the most famous examples of FBI
targeting individuals based on their political activities are the
harassment of Martin Luther King Jr. and the COINTELPRO program.
COINTELPRO was an organized effort to spy on and actively disrupt
"subversive" organizations, including antiwar groups

COINTELPRO officially ended in the 1970s.
However, the FBI still targets individuals and organizations it
considers "subversive," including antiwar groups and citizen
militias.

Congress must hold hearings to determine if
the FBI is currently using unconstitutional methods to "monitor"
any organizations based on their beliefs. Congress must then take
whatever steps necessary to ensure that no Americans are ever
again targeted for surveillance because of their political
beliefs and activities.

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