Monday, March 26, 2007
No Looking At Who We Spied On!
NYC police "....fingerprint[ed] more than a thousand people who faced charges no more serious than traffic tickets. Some were detained as long as two days for minor offenses." Now they want to be sure that nobody knows who they spied on and have asked the court to help keep their secret.
It is not as though they simply watched people who arrived in NYC in 2004 for the convention. No. The NYPD Intel Division "sent undercover detectives around the city, the country and the world to collect information on political activists and others planning to demonstrate at the 2004 convention, according to a sampling of records reviewed by The New York Times that were the subject of an article yesterday."
Oh well, I wasn't using my civil liberties anyway. The camel's nose is under the tent on individual rights.
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