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NY Times Editorial: A Reminder to the FBI

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By The New York Times Editorial Page The day after Thanksgiving, 2002, was a slow day in the Pittsburgh office of the F.B.I., so a supervisor sent a special agent to a rally against the threatened war in Iraq to look for any terrorism suspects who might be there, just to ”see what they are…

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Boston Globe Editorial Says FBI Guilty of “Red-Baiting at its Worst”

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By The Boston Globe Editorial GREENPEACE, THE Catholic Worker, the Thomas Merton Center — none of these groups had the remotest connection to 9/11 or terrorism. And the FBI had no business investigating them — with no evidence other than a suspicion of left-wing organizations in wartime. This was shameful red-baiting at its worst. The…