{"id":1540,"date":"2011-07-26T01:16:17","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T01:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2011\/07\/26\/kucinich-asks-holder-why-justice-department-is\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:30:39","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:30:39","slug":"kucinich-asks-holder-why-justice-department-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/07\/26\/kucinich-asks-holder-why-justice-department-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Kucinich Asks Holder Why Justice Department Is Investigating Antiwar Activists | The Dissenter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/322807632\/kucinich-asks-holder-why-justice-department-is-investigating-antiwar-activists-the-dissenter\" 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 \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.scoop.it\/NkSGQtdvh78fRB1ivwYwczl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBXEejxNn4ZJNZ2ss5Ku7Cxt\" \/><br \/>Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) has written a letter to Attorney General Eric J. Holder expressing concern about an investigation into antiwar activists in Minneapolis and Chicago. The congressman is the latest member of Congress to send Holder a letter on this matter.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/dissenter.firedoglake.com\/2011\/07\/25\/kucinich-asks-holder-why-justice-department-is-investigating-antiwar-activists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Show original<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Scoop.it &#8211; Rights &amp; LibertiesRep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) has written a letter to Attorney General Eric J. Holder expressing concern about an investigation into antiwar activists in Minneapolis and Chicago. The congressman is the latest member of Congress to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/07\/26\/kucinich-asks-holder-why-justice-department-is\/\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1619,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/06\/21\/freed-journalists-letter-of-thanks-to-amnesty\/","url_meta":{"origin":1540,"position":0},"title":"Freed Journalist&#8217;s Letter of Thanks to Amnesty Activists | Human Rights Now &#8211; Amnesty International USA Blog","author":"aslam","date":"June 21, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - 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