Federal Agency Aided Md. Spying (washingtonpost.com)

February 17, 2009 12:00 am

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DHS tracked the protest plans of the DC Anti-War Network (DAWN), a peaceful antiwar group, and passed the information to the Maryland State Police, which had previously labeled the activists as terrorists in an intelligence file.

The Maryland State Police spied on more than 30 activist groups, mostly peace groups and anti-death penalty advocates, and wrongly identified 53 individual activists and about two dozen organizations as terrorists. The Maryland State Police shared information about these cases with the Baltimore City Police Department, the Baltimore County Police Department, the Anne Arundel County Police Department, the Washington-Baltimore High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Task Force, a local police representative of the FBI’s JTTF, a National Security Agency security official, an unnamed military intelligence officer, and DHS. DHS further disseminated e-mails from one of the peace groups.

More: www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/16/AR2009021601131…

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