投稿者 佐藤雅彦 日時 2001 年 12 月 02 日 16:40:41:
●米国では、この際だから国内の宗教団体やキリスト教系政治
組織を FBIのスパイ監視の対象にしちまえ、という政策が明ら
かにされ、さすがに司法省やFBI内部にも、こうしたゲシュタポ
国家への変貌に躊躇する反応が起きているとか。
●徹底的な宗教弾圧を行なった過去の例としては、やっぱり
フランス革命を連想してしまうんですが、革命政府が行なった
恐怖政治こそが「テロリスム」という言葉のそもそもの由来であり、
その意味では言葉の真の意味で小ブッシュ政権こそテロリスト
集団なんですけどね。臆病者で何をやらせてもダメだった劣等生
の「ダビャちゃん」こと小ブッシュは、ナポレオンにでもなりたい
のでしょうか？（笑） いやいや小心者のダビャちゃんだから、
きっと誰かにそそのかされているのでしょうな。（苦笑）
●今回の米国のやりかたは、むしろナチスの宗教・カルト政策に
似ている印象を持ちます。ブッシュ親子は骸骨結社のメンバー
なわけで、ある意味、オカルト結社に足を突っ込んでいる。
陸軍の下っ端諜報員としてトゥーレ協会に関わり、政治的カリスマ
として増長していった若き頃のヒットラーと似ていなくはありません。
ナチスの母体は極右のオカルト結社でしたが、ナチスが政権をとり、
自作自演の国会放火事件で政治的反対勢力を粛清したり、勝手に
「総統」として独裁権力を掌握して、結局、そうしたオカルト結社を
抑圧して政治・軽罪・文化団体を国家的画一政策に押し込めて
いったわけですから……。
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FBI agents rebel over new powers
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,610381,00.html
Liberty Watch: Observer campaign
Ed Vulliamy in New York
Sunday December 2, 2001
The Observer
The US Attorney General, John Ashcroft, was yesterday reported to be
ready to relax restrictions on the FBI's powers to spy on religious and
church-based political organisations.
His proposal, leaked to the New York Times, would loosen limits on the
FBI's surveillance powers, imposed in the 1970s after the death of its
founder J. Edgar Hoover.
The plan has caused outrage within the FBI itself with agents expected
to act upon new surveillance powers describing themselves as 'very, very
angry'.
The spying, wiretapping and surveillance campaign unleashed by Hoover
against church and political groups was called 'Cointelpro', and was
aimed mainly at the movement behind civil rights activist Martin Luther
King, the Black Panthers, the anti-Vietnam war movement and, on the
other wing, the Ku Klux Klan.
When the system was revealed, upon Hoover's death, restrictions were put
on the security bureau, in the form of two sets of regulations
pertaining to foreign-based and domestic groups. The rules forbade FBI
agents from sending undercover agents into churches, synagogues or
mosques unless they found 'probable cause or evidence' that someone in
them had broken the law.
A Justice Department spokeswoman, Susan Dryden, said no final decision
had been made on their reintroduction.
According to sources, the plan has caused a sharp rift within the
department and the FBI. Ashcroft and the new FBI director, Robert
Mueller, are pushing the plan eagerly, but there is strong opposition
among officials inside both the bureau and the Justice Department.
Internal opposition to the plan will exacerbate an already fractious
atmosphere in the FBI since President Bush took office.
Some agents told the New York Times that they considered any weakening
of the guidelines 'a serious mistake', and that the Justice Department
had 'not clearly described' the proposed changes. 'People are furious
right now,' said one agent.
The changes would become part of what civil liberties groups regard as a
dangerously changing legal landscape in the US: 1,200 people with
connections to Islamic groups have been taken into custody, and
Draconian security measures, such as wiretapping of lawyers, pushed
through Congress.
Further plans are now afoot to seek out and interview some 5,000
immigrants, mostly Muslims, who have entered the US since January.
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Saturday December 01 09:01 AM EST
Ashcroft Seeking to Free F.B.I. to Spy on Groups
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/nyt/20011201/ts/ashcroft_seeking_to_free_f_b_i_to_spy_on_groups_1.html
By DAVID JOHNSTON and DON VAN NATTA Jr. The New York Times
Attorney General John Ashcroft is considering a plan to relax
restrictions on the F.B.I.'s spying on religious and political
organizations.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 Attorney General John Ashcroft is considering a plan
to relax restrictions on the F.B.I.'s spying on religious and political
organizations in the United States, senior government officials said
today.
The proposal would loosen one of the most fundamental restrictions on
the conduct of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and would be another
step by the Bush administration to modify civil-liberties protections as
a means of defending the country against terrorists, the senior
officials said.
The attorney general's surveillance guidelines were imposed on the
F.B.I. in the 1970's after the death of J. Edgar Hoover and the
disclosures that the F.B.I. had run a widespread domestic surveillance
program, called Cointelpro, to monitor antiwar militants, the Ku Klux
Klan, the Black Panthers and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., among
others, while Mr. Hoover was director.
Since then, the guidelines have defined the F.B.I.'s operational conduct
in investigations of domestic and overseas groups that operate in the
United States.
Some officials who oppose the change said the rules had largely kept the
F.B.I. out of politically motivated investigations, protecting the
bureau from embarrassment and lawsuits. But others, including senior
Justice Department officials, said the rules were outmoded and geared to
obsolete investigative methods and had at times hobbled F.B.I.
counterterrorism efforts.
Mr. Ashcroft and the F.B.I. director, Robert S. Mueller III, favor the
change, the officials said. Most of the opposition comes from career
officials at the F.B.I. and the Justice Department.
A Justice Department spokeswoman said today that no final decision had
been reached on the revised guidelines.
"As part of the attorney general's reorganization," said Susan Dryden,
the spokeswoman, "we are conducting a comprehensive review of all
guidelines, policies and procedures. All of these are still under
review."
An F.B.I. spokesman said the bureau's approach to terrorism was also
under review.
"Director Mueller's view is that everything should be on the table for
review," the spokesman, John Collingwood, said. "He is more than willing
to embrace change when doing so makes us a more effective component. A
healthy review process doesn't come at the expense of the historic
protections inherent in our system."
The attorney general is free to revise the guidelines, but Justice
Department officials said it was unclear how heavily they would be
revised. There are two sets of guidelines, for domestic and foreign
groups, and most of the discussion has centered on the largely
classified rules for investigations of foreign groups.
The relaxation of the guidelines would follow administration measures to
establish military tribunals to try foreigners accused of terrorism; to
seek out and question 5,000 immigrants, most of them Muslims, who have
entered the United States since January 2000; and to arrest more than
1,200 people, nearly all of whom are unconnected to the terrorist
attacks of Sept. 11, and hold hundreds of them in jail.
Today, Mr. Ashcroft defended his initiatives in an impassioned speech to
United States attorneys.
"Our efforts have been deliberate, they've been coordinated, they've
been carefully crafted to not only protect America but to respect the
Constitution and the rights enshrined therein," Mr. Ashcroft said.
"Still," he added, "there have been a few voices who have criticized.
Some have sought to condemn us with faulty facts or without facts at
all. Others have simply rushed to judgment, almost eagerly assuming the
worst of their government before they've had a chance to understand it
at its best."
Under the current surveillance guidelines, the F.B.I. cannot send
undercover agents to investigate groups that gather at places like
mosques or churches unless investigators first find probable cause, or
evidence leading them to believe that someone in the group may have
broken the law. Full investigations of this sort cannot take place
without the attorney general's consent.
Since Sept. 11, investigators have said, Islamic militants have
sometimes met at mosques apparently knowing that the religious
institutions are usually off limits to F.B.I. surveillance squads. Some
officials are now saying they need broader authority to conduct
surveillance of potential terrorists, no matter where they are.
Senior career F.B.I. officials complained that they had not been
consulted about the proposed change a criticism they have expressed
about other Bush administration counterterrorism measures. When the
Justice Department decided to use military tribunals to try accused
terrorists, and to interview thousands of Muslim men in the United
States, the officials said they were not consulted.
Justice Department officials noted that Mr. Mueller had endorsed the
administration's proposals, adding that the complaints were largely from
older F.B.I. officials who were resistant to change and unwilling to
take the aggressive steps needed to root out terror in the United
States. Other officials said the Justice Department had consulted with
F.B.I. lawyers and some operational managers about the change.
But in a series of recent interviews, several senior career officials at
the F.B.I. said it would be a serious mistake to weaken the guidelines,
and they were upset that the department had not clearly described the
proposed changes.
"People are furious right now very, very angry," one of them said. "They
just assume they know everything. When you don't consult with anybody,
it sends the message that you assume you know everything. And they don't
know everything."
Still, some complaints seem to stem from the F.B.I.'s shifting status
under Mr. Ashcroft. Weakened by a series of problems that predated the
Sept. 11 attacks, the F.B.I. has been forced to follow orders from the
Justice Department a change that many law enforcement experts thought
was long overdue. In the past, the bureau leadership had far more
independence and authority to make its own decisions.
Several senior officials are leaving the F.B.I., including Thomas J.
Pickard, the deputy director. He was the senior official in charge of
the investigation of the attacks and was among top F.B.I. officials who
were opposed to another decision of the Bush administration, the public
announcements of Oct. 12 and Oct. 29 that placed the country on the
highest state of alert in response to vague but credible threats of a
possible second terrorist attack. Mr. Pickard is said to have been
opposed to publicizing threats that were too vague to provide any
precautionary advice.
Many F.B.I. officials regard the administration's plan to establish
military tribunals as an extreme step that diminishes the F.B.I.'s role
because it creates a separate prosecutorial system run by the military.
"The only thing I have seen about the tribunals is what I have seen in
the newspapers," a senior official complained.
Another official said many senior law enforcement officials shared his
concern about the tribunals. "I believe in the rule of law, and I
believe if we have a case to make against someone, we should make it in
a federal courtroom in the United States," he said.
Several senior F.B.I. officials said the tribunal system should be
reserved for senior Al Qaeda members apprehended by the military in
Afghanistan or other foreign countries.
Few were involved in deliberations that led to the directive Mr.
Ashcroft issued this month to interview immigrant men living legally in
the United States. F.B.I. officials have complained that the interview
plan was begun before its ramifications were fully understood.
"None of this was thought through, a senior official said. "They just
announced it, and left it to others to figure out how to do it."
The arrests and detentions of more than 1,200 people since Sept. 11 have
also aroused concerns at the F.B.I. Officials noted that the
investigations had found no conspirators in the United States who aided
the hijackers in the Sept. 11 attacks and only a handful of people who
were considered Al Qaeda members.
"This came out of the White House, and Ashcroft's office," a senior
official said. "There are tons of things coming out of there these days
where there is absolutely no consultation with the bureau."
Some at the F.B.I. have been openly skeptical about claims that some of
the 1,200 people arrested were Al Qaeda members and that the strategy of
making widespread arrests had disrupted or thwarted planned attacks.
"It's just not the case," an official said. "We have 10 or 12 people we
think are Al Qaeda people, and that's it. And for some of them, it's
based only on conjecture and suspicion."
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