{"id":1324,"date":"2011-12-02T07:55:45","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T07:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/02\/foia-documents-show-fbi-illegally-collecting\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:29:58","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:29:58","slug":"foia-documents-show-fbi-illegally-collecting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/12\/02\/foia-documents-show-fbi-illegally-collecting\/","title":{"rendered":"FOIA Documents Show FBI Illegally Collecting Intelligence Under Guise of \u201cCommunity Outreach\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a style=\"font-weight:bold;font-size:16px\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/755212754\/foia-documents-show-fbi-illegally-collecting-intelligence-under-guise-of-community-outreach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scoop.it<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rights &amp; Liberties<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/755212754\/foia-documents-show-fbi-illegally-collecting-intelligence-under-guise-of-community-outreach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.scoop.it\/ClHixy8NGsTaUep1POa6DTl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBXEejxNn4ZJNZ2ss5Ku7Cxt\" \/><\/a><br \/>The FBI has been illegally using its community outreach programs to secretly collect and store information about activities protected by the First Amendment for intelligence purposes, according to FBI documents released today by the American Civil Liberties Union. \u00a0<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aclu.org\/national-security\/foia-documents-show-fbi-illegally-collecting-intelligence-under-guise-community\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Via aclu.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Scoop.it &#8211; Rights &amp; LibertiesThe FBI has been illegally using its community outreach programs to secretly collect and store information about activities protected by the First Amendment for intelligence purposes, according to FBI documents released today by the American &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/12\/02\/foia-documents-show-fbi-illegally-collecting\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":56,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2017\/05\/19\/the-imperial-bureau\/","url_meta":{"origin":1324,"position":0},"title":"The Imperial Bureau","author":"aslam","date":"May 19, 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"In the 1950s, for example, the National Lawyers Guild, an association of progressive lawyers formed as an alternative to the segregated, anti\u2013New Deal American Bar Association, was preparing a report detailing the FBI\u2019s illegal wiretaps and dirty tricks. 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