Monday, June 29, 2009

President Obama's thuggishness:

1. Politicized the census by moving it into the White House from the Department of Commerce.

Obama's Census Power Grab

Good news: ACORN to help with 2010 census

Illegals Will be Counted in the U.S. Census

(Thanks to Glenn Beck, Andrew Breibart, Hannah, and James O'Keefe for helping to cut ACORN out of messing with the census!!)

2. "Don't think we're not keeping score, brother." That's what President Barack Obama said to Rep. Peter DeFazio in a closed-door meeting of the House Democratic Caucus last week, according to the Associated Press.

A few weeks ago, Mr. DeFazio voted against the administration's stimulus bill."

3. A newly unclassified Department of Homeland Security report warns against the possibility of violence by unnamed "right-wing extremists" concerned about illegal immigration, increasing federal power, restrictions on firearms, abortion and the loss of U.S. sovereignty and singles out returning war veterans as particular threats.

4. Major Garrett: I was told Obama might not call on me if Fox didn’t carry his presser

5. White House uses strong arm tactics to extort concessions from lenders

6. RED ALERT: Did anti-Obama campaign contributions dictate which Chrysler dealers were shuttered?

7. White House: We’ll cut off criticism of Porkulus

8. Who pressured Justice to drop case against voter intimidation (by the New Black Panther Party) in Philly?

vs.

Politicization of Justice, part II
("A new investigation about alleged civil-rights violations has Sheriff Joe Arpaio fuming over what he sees as a political attack")

9. More Thug Politics: Health Care Lobbyists Threatened By Senate Finance Chairman

10. BBC: US deliberately kept Britain in the dark over Uighurs, Bermuda

11. Emails provide inside view of Obama-thugs at work:
Obama auto team called shareholder lawyer a "terrorist"

12. Obama threatening freshmen dems if they don't vote his way

13. Public Humiliation For Gen. Jim Jones

14. Obama's EPA Quashes Climate Change Science

15. this retired/fired IG story isn't going away...

16. Nice state you got there, Kyl

17. EDITORIAL: Snooping for clunkers

18. Be an informant for Obama: Call For Informants: If You Oppose Obamacare, Even in ‘Casual Conversation,’ the White House Wants to Know About It

Obama's dissident database could be secret -- and permanent

Who’s behind the Internet Snitch Brigade>

"...But wait ... there’s more."

DNC Admits Barack Obama WAS Collecting Information on People Via Flag@Whitehouse.gov

19. Emanuel called not the programming chiefs, but the heads of parent companies in an effort to pressure networks to greenlight his boss’s show.

"the White House has to use the covert threat of a cutoff in White House access for networks that refuse to play ball."

20. town hall confrontations coming?
Cult leader to followers: Get out there and get in people’s faces on health care

Forget Brown Shirts. Beware the Purple Shirts

RAW VIDEO!!.....TEA PARTY PROTESTERS ATTACKED-- 1 Black Conservative Seriously Hurt in St. Louis!... 6 Arrested Including SEIU Members

SHOCK VIDEO--- DEMS SNEAK UNION THUGS INTO CARNAHAN TOWN HALL-- 1,000 Tea Party Taxpayers Locked Out!

21. White House to Dems on town halls: "If you get hit, we will punch back twice as hard"

Protester Punched At Townhall Meeting

22. "But I don't want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking. I want them to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess. I don't mind cleaning up after them, but don't do a lot of talking."

23. Comrade Waxman Launches Investigation of Insurance Industry

24. The Death Panel...

The Death Panels Are Real. We Have the Video.

NICE QALY you got there

25. Town Hall protesters have been referred to as: an angry mob, astroturfers, racists, political terrorists, Un-American, like the KKK, like Hamas and Hezbollah, evil-mongers, thugs who attacked civil rights marchers, Neanderthals, close to Brown Shirt tactics, underminers of the country, Functionally Retarded Adults, Right-Wing Domestic Terrorists, and subverters of the American Democratic Process...

so far, town hall protesters have been...

26. Pharmaquiddick: Obama's Drug Deal Gone Bad

REVEALED: SECRET OBAMA-PhARMA DEAL MEMO BOTH PARTIES HAVE DENIED FOR WEEK

27. Death Panel hidden in Porkulus...

'Death panel' is not in the bill... it already exists...

28. Obama brings back the VA "Death Book"

The Death Book for Veterans
Ex-soldiers don't need to be told they're a burden to society.

29. supporting Zelaya, but Iran protesters? not so much...

**Did Obama do Zelaya’s bidding in revoking visas?

**Coups, interference, and the shifting standards of Obama

**Obama's Attraction to Human Rights Violators

**Obama stands with Castro, Chavez and Ortega

**WSJ: White House tried to prevent Honduran president’s ouster

**Obama blocking more sanctions on Iran?

**State Dept suspends Honduras visa service

**"Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton terminated a large part of U.S. assistance to Honduras Thursday over the ouster of President Manuel Zelaya and said that Washington would not recognize the results of elections scheduled for November."

**Of Course: Obama Administration Expands Visas To Cuba After Stopping Most Honduras Visas

**Wonderful: Obama grants visa to Burmese junta member — but not to Honduran leaders

**Now State Dept. Issuing Visas for Iranian Officials

"Let me be clear: visas for members of the Burmes junta, visas for members of A'jad's terrorist government, but no visas for members of the government in Honduras, which expelled a wanna-be Chavez-style tyrant with the consent of the country's constitutional court and its democratically elected legislature."

**Obama On Verge of Victory In Honduras

"It's hard to know if the situation in Honduras is as dire as reports indicate. Apparently the Obama administration is on the verge of winning in Honduras by forcing the constitutional authorities -- the legislature, the courts, the interim government -- to allow back into power the Hugo Chavez wannabe and puppet, Manuel Zelaya."

30. "Therefore, I rejoice that the attorney general has chosen to sacrifice the remaining shreds of the administration’s credibility in a futile, thuggish attempt to punish its predecessor for successful national defense."

The War Against the War Against Terrorism

31. Obama Campaign Organization Plans 911 Event to Fight “Right Wing Domestic Terrorists"

"Today, President Obama’s campaign organization “Organizing for America” sent out a notice to its “grassroots” supporters. It asked them to wage a coordinated phone campaign for health care by calling their U.S. Senators on September 11 – also known as Patriot Day in honor of the thousands of Americans killed by Al Qaeda terrorists eight years ago. It goes on: “All 50 States are coordinating in this – as we fight back against our own Right-Wing Domestic Terrorists who are subverting the American Democratic Process, whipped to a frenzy by their Fox Propaganda Network ceaselessly re-seizing power for their treacherous leaders.” Please read that again."

"—-* RECLAIM OUR LAND FROM THE HEIRS OF, YES: BIN LADEN *—-* YOU KNOW IT’S TRUE *—-"

32. Report: Obama White House Plans To Harvest Personal Data From Networking Sites

33. Political intimidation has always been part of the current Congress's health-care strategy: "If you're not at the table, you're on the menu" is tattooed on every lobbyist and industry rep in Washington. But Max Baucus's latest bullying tactics are hard to believe by even these standards, as the Senate Finance Chairman has sicced federal regulators on the insurer Humana Inc. for daring to criticize one part of his health bill.

34. "Today’s revelation is the extensive proof that shows the White House used the National Endowment for the Arts to push a political agenda favorable to President Obama. But it gets worse: the Administration lied about it, and tried to cover it up."

35. Brezinski Calls for Obama to Shoot Down Israeli Jets; "A Liberty in Reverse"

36. "Despite Mr. Obama’s claims, Mr. Raddatz’s treatment was never delayed. And he did not die because of it. Meanwhile, in this very same speech Mr. Obama accused others of misrepresenting the facts."

37. White House Amps Up Jihad Against Fox News

"In the past few months, Fox News' critical coverage of the Obama administration has been the subject of scornful scrutiny by left-leaning pundits and political satirists. But now the White House appears to be willing to get dirt on its own hands, jumping into the fray by blasting the network's "disregard for facts" in a post on the official White House blog."

38. don't ask. don't tell, don't know

"No U.S. Senator has yet been to Honduras to assess facts of crisis. [Kerry] & Obama admin using bullying tactics to hide truth," DeMint, who also sits on the Foreign Relations panel, said on Twitter after he heard the trip would not occur."@JohnKerry (Foreign Rel. chair) trying to hide truth to protect Zelaya, blocking our fact-finding trip to Honduras at last minute," DeMint also tweeted late Thursday afternoon."

the Obama campaign's thuggishness:

1. threats over Ayers ad...

Fighting back against Obama’s thugs
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/08/26/fighting-back-against-obamas-thugs/

Gloves off: Now, Obama calls for prosecuting GOP donor; Update: AIP responds
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/08/26/gloves-off-now-obama-calls-for-prosecuting-gop-donor/

Here is the ad Barack Obama doesn’t want you to see. Pass it on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m89m0pC_bpY

Mark Levin speaks with Cleta Mitchell, the Counsel for the American Issues Project, about the efforts of Barack Obama and his campaign to have the FEC investigate their legal free speech and how the AIP responded
http://marklevinfan.com/?p=3033

Would An Obama Justice Department Be Used to Prosecute Conservatives?
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2008/08/021330.php

2. Obamatons try to prevent Stanley Kurtz interview:

Stanley Kurtz's Fairness Doctrine Preview [Guy Benson]
http://media.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZmRhYmE3NzFlMTljNTdmZGQ3MjhkYTVjNzdmMjVhMzE=

The Radio Show the Obama Campaign Doesn't Want You to Hear:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/31074_The_Radio_Show_the_Obama_Campaign_Doesnt_Want_You_to_Hear

Mark Levin speaks with Stanley Kurtz about the Obama campaign’s intimidation tactics when the latter went on a Chicago radio station. Mr. Kurtz was reporting on his inquiry into Barack Obama’s relationship with Bill Ayers:
http://marklevinfan.com/?p=3050

3. the Silencer in Chief: Obamatons try to prevent Freddoso interview:

Obama’s character assassins target another National Review journalist
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/16/obamas-character-assassins-target-another-national-review-journalist/

4. Obama and the Fairness Doctrine
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/obama-and-the-fairness-doctrine/

5. Ho hum: Obama’s lawyer threatens TV stations that run NRA ad
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/25/ho-hum-obamas-lawyer-threatens-tv-stations-that-run-nra-ad/

Obama doesn't want you to watch this ad:
http://election.newsmax.com/nra_Hunter.html

6. Missouri Sheriffs & Top Prosecutors Form Obama "Truth Squads" & Threaten Libel Charges Against Obama Critics
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/09/missouri-sheriffs-prosecuters-form.html

7. Obama tells his Obamaton followers: "I want you to argue with them and get in their face."
http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MjNlNTc4ZjdmNWMwMWJlYTY1MDE2ZjFjMTQwMzIwYTU=

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8. using out of context comedy bits to paint Limbaugh/McCain as racists:
Obama Is Stoking Racial Antagonism
By RUSH LIMBAUGH
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122178554189155003.html

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9. Democrats threaten to kneecap Jewish nonprofits (Ahmadinejad protest)
http://www.yourish.com/2008/09/20/5358

10. Obama Camp Confirms Treasonous Actions on Iraq Trip
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_091608/content/01125112.guest.html

11. Welcome to Obama's Police State: Seeks To Prosecute Those Who Claim Voter Fraud
http://jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com/2008/10/welcome-to-obamas-police-state-seeks-to.html

12. FL Reporter Asks Tough Questions & ‘The One’ Strikes Back
http://dirtyharrysplace.com/?p=5216

13. Biden Bans Philadelphia Station After Tough Interview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZT1y1io4vA

14. Obama Campaign Demands Ban On Republican Jewish Group, Escalates Thuggish Intimidation
http://www.mererhetoric.com/archives/11274950.html

15. Government computers used to find information on Joe the Plumber
http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/10/24/joe.html?sid=101

16. Obama kicks dissenting reporters off plane
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/10/31/obama-kicks-dissenting-reporters-off-plane/

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

VAAPCON part 1

Pro-Life/VAAPCON/Return of the Janet Reno DOJ?
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VAAPCON summary:

* "In August 1994, the Attorney General established the Task Force on Violence Against Abortion Providers (often referred to as "VAAPCON"). VAAPCON was charged with determining whether there was a nationwide conspiracy to commit acts of violence against reproductive health care providers."

* "In January 1995, President Clinton directed each of the 93 United States Attorneys to establish a local task force to coordinate law enforcement efforts relating to clinic violence. These working groups have remained in place since that time, and include representatives from state and local law enforcement as well as representatives from the FBI, ATF, and US Marshals Service. They are designed to maximize the level of coordination and communication among law enforcement officials in the field. They are also intended to improve communications between providers and law enforcement to assess and address threats and other security risks more effectively.

* "As VAAPCON was phased out in 1996, the responsibility for coordinating the law enforcement response to clinic violence was transferred to the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. Cases were worked according to normal procedures in the Criminal and Special Litigation Sections in cooperation with United States Attorney's offices and investigative agencies. To help ensure effective communication, the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights established a Working Group on Abortion Violence with participants from the Criminal and Special Litigation Sections, the FBI, ATF, the USMS and the Executive Office for the United States Attorneys. The Working Group met monthly to facilitate coordination on a national level...."

* "In February of 2006, after a long and expensive legal battle, racketeering charges against Joe Scheidler and other pro-lifers were thrown out by an 8-1 vote of the US Supreme Court."

* "After the FBI failed to find enough evidenceof a conspiracy, they said, some agents became increasingly disgruntled with the Justice Department's efforts to build a case. Playing off the investigation's code name VAAPCON, for Violence Against Abortion Providers Conspiracy, they nicknamed the probe "Crapcon." The federal grand jury in Alexandria was finally disbanded in January 1996, and Cheryl Richardson, who had stubbornly refused to testify, was released from prison."

* "The Clinton-Reno probe resulted in no negative information about any of the targets. [Wendy Wright of Concerned Women for America] believes the true purpose was to quiet the pro-life movement."

* "Although some within the FBI objected to the scope of the database ordered by the Justice Department shortly after the passage of the Freedom of Access to Clinics Entrance Act of 1994, or FACE, these objections were overruled by senior Justice Department lawyers."

* "When rumors about Reno’s witch-hunts first surfaced, she flatly denied that such a campaign even existed. But documents were eventually uncovered that proved she was lying through her blood-stained teeth. The project even had an official name. It was called, VAAPCON and I know, first-hand, that it led to at least one pro-life organization having its mail illegally opened and its phones illegally tapped. This happened despite the fact that this organization had no ties to even one single act of violence, had never endorsed violence and was not associated with one person who was accused of committing violence. The reason I know this is because the organization I’m talking about is Life Dynamics. And we were certainly not the only targets. In the ensuing years, I have been told by other pro-life leaders that they too had the same experience."

* "Immediately after taking office, Clinton and his Attorney General, Janet Reno, began paying off their campaign debts to the abortion lobby. While Clinton got legislation passed to sweep the streets clean of peaceful non-violent picketers, Reno literally turned the Attorney General’s office and the FBI into a private police force for the abortion industry. By the way, that analysis did not originate with me; it was given to me by an FBI agent who told me that he was sick and tired of being sent out to investigate “pro-life terrorists” only to find some 70-year-old nun in tennis shoes whose act of “terrorism” was praying the Rosary in front of some godless abortion mill."

* "Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Clinton Justice Department and FBI on July 9, 1999 to uncover documents on a Justice Department/FBI database on pro-life leaders -- which is called VAAPCON. Judicial Watch requested documents related to this database back in March, but the Clinton Administration has yet to produce one single document, even while admitting "voluminous" documents exist.

* "Judicial Watch was anonymously informed of the database's existence. Judicial Watch understands that the database was created, using abortion clinic violence as an excuse, over the objections of some in the FBI, but that the upper levels of the Clinton Justice Department ordered its creation anyway. Specifically, some were concerned that the database violated the FBI's own rules and regulations related to keeping data on American citizens. Judicial Watch has information that the database contains biographical information on well known pro-life leaders.

* "VAAPCON was the name of an 18-month task force"

* January 2000: "Because he believed himself to be a likely target of the Clinton Administration, Dr. Jerry Falwell, Chancellor of Liberty University, and founder of "The Moral Majority," filed a Privacy Act request to determine whether or not The White House and Clinton Justice Department had files on him and his ministries. Typically, both entities stonewalled – effectively confirming that illegal files are being kept on Dr. Falwell and his ministries. To get at the truth, Judicial Watch and Jerry Falwell, Jr., an attorney in Lynchburg, Virginia, and son of Dr. Falwell, filed suit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia."

* "Then how to explain newly obtained internal Justice Department documents that lay out justification for "intrusive investigative activity" by the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the U.S. Postal Inspection and U.S. Marshals services and other federal law-enforcement agencies to compile dossiers on groups as divergent as the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, the National Rifle Association and the Women's Coalition for Life?

* from Insight Magazine: "News alert! has obtained hundreds of pages on this secret project called VAAPCON, an acronym for Violence Against Abortion Providers Conspiracy, sometimes just shortened to VAAP. These never-before-seen records detail not just suspected criminal activities by some factions of the antiabortion or pro-life movements, but also the political activities, biographies and lobbying efforts by some of the most well-known - and law-abiding groups - in the country."

* "Larry Klayman, general counsel of Judicial Watch, whose group obtained the documents under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, asks: "What in the world are Janet Reno, Hillary, Bill and their VAAPCON task force doing using law-enforcement personnel to infiltrate, collect and assemble database information of this type? We were told by one source that some in the FBI objected to the monitoring of these groups on legal and ethical grounds but were overruled by upper levels at Justice."

* "What is curious to even two senior federal law-enforcement officials, one at the FBI and one at the Justice Department, is that the database is under the auspices of the Criminal Division and that virtually all entries are part of what's called an "FI" tag - that is, a "full-investigation" label. "This is wrong and it ought to be exposed for what it is, a political witch-hunt," said a concerned FBI agent.

* "Mixed in with the bishops, for example, is information on violent groups and astounding details on surveillance and monitoring techniques by a variety of federal law-enforcement agencies. This includes tracking mail sent to or received from all manner of organizations in contact with people in the federal database, including the NRA, Nynex Telephone Corp. and even the Blind Work Association in Binghamton, N.Y."

* "The existence of the database was revealed in an exclusive report by Insight June 23 (http://www.insightmag.com) outlining details of this previously rumored but heretofore unconfirmed secret project run by the FBI under the auspices of the Justice Department’s criminal division.

* "Besides political and biographical information on such people and groups, the FBI also appears to have included extensive telephone, credit card, financial and even lobbying records on people and groups. In one case, involving the National Right to Life Committee, or NRLC, an extensive investigative file dates back to 1978 on suspected fraud and other wrongdoing.

* "Though there does not appear to be a direct attack on religious or First Amendment freedoms, the FBI task force has used "intrusive" means to obtain information once normally associated with terrorist groups or other subversives.

* "It wasn’t the inclusion of suspected criminals or the infusion of old files on such activities that we objected to," a senior FBI agent told Insight. "It was the collection of political and personal information on people such as the cardinal that many of us found objectionable. It should not be in the database or passed over to Justice for general reading – this is obviously political in nature and something we work hard to avoid."

* In responding to a request from Rep. Charles Taylor, R-N.C., for information on reports that the feds were targeting pro-lifers, the FBI insisted that it only tracks individuals or organizations known to be or suspected of being involved in criminal activities, according to Insight magazine.

* "As a result of the FBI’s failure to admit that VAAP was tracking innocent members of the pro-life movement, Congressman Taylor told Insight he and other members of Congress are determined to dig deeper into the matter."

* "The Judicial Watch group said it had obtained hundreds of pages from the Justice Department project called VAAPCON, or Violence Against Abortion Providers Conspiracy. They said the documents lay out justification for “intrusive investigative activity” by the FBI, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, US Postal Inspectors, and US Marshals."

* "While the FBI’s first search for documents did not uncover any records pertaining to Falwell, later searches did reveal such records. From October 1999 to September 2000, the FBI released documents to Falwell that it had found pertaining to him. The FBI first searched its Central Records System (“CRS”) using its Universal Index and then conducted a more particularized search for documents using computer systems called Rapid Start-VAAPCON and VAAPCON Application.

* "In 1994, the FBI began an investigation into violence against health care providers called VAAPCON (Violence Against Abortion Providers Conspiracy). Rapid Start VAAPCON and VAAPCON Application were internalized computerized sub-systems of the Central Records System. These computer sub-systems were used by the FBI as management tools to assist with the organization of information within the CRS. The court assumes that when Falwell refers to the VAAPCON database in his complaint, he means these computer sub-systems"

* "This investigation was called Violence Against Abortion Providers Conspiracy (VAAPCON) and was first exposed by the watchdog organization, Judicial Watch, from information obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, and from a source inside the FBI.

* "FBI investigators complained that they were being required to look into pro-life organizations with no known relationship to violence against abortionists or clinics. After several months of monitoring the mail and phone calls of pro-lifers and finding no evidence of a conspiracy, the FBI wanted to drop the investigation. However, orders from the Clinton-Reno Justice Department insisted they continue, and the investigation dragged on for another year. Finally, the investigation was called-off without discovering any conspiracy.

* "One FBI source contacted for the New York Post article confirmed the investigation, pointing out that, "this is a highly political, highly corrupt administration." Officials at the Department of Justice minimized the claims, asserting that "the bottom line is we have very, very strict guidelines on investigations of groups. We do not and cannot investigate a group unless there is a reasonable belief that a crime has been committed." That was a lie. Individuals and groups reported on the VAAPCON database included the late John Cardinal O'Conner (Archbishop of the Diocese of New York), the Reverend Jerry Falwell, the National Council of Catholic Bishops, and Feminists for Life, all of which had explicitly renounced violence and had no history of connections with illegal activity..."

* "That operation, allegedly begun by then-Attorney General Janet Reno in August 1994, was dubbed VAAPCON, assigned the number MC-111 (Major Case 111) and was aimed at investigating "the so-called religious right in America and possible ties to violent acts," the paper said.

* "The Gazette learned that FBI MC-111 (MC stands for “major case”) evolved from VAAPCON – a project Reno started in 1994. At Reno’s instruction, the FBI began gathering intelligence on right-wing religious groups and cults that espoused the same hate rhetoric found at Pastor Butler’s Aryan Nations in Idaho and at Christian Identity enclave Elohim City in Oklahoma. But critics charge that in practice, Reno and the FBI took the project much further – gathering a vast database of intelligence on people active in the anti-abortion movement with absolutely no history of criminality. Reno said she suspected some of these groups were doing more than preaching racial separatism and anti-abortion politics. She told senior FBI agents to look into the possibility that a conspiracy was at work inside the so-called Christian-right movement in America, a conspiracy possibly linked to the surprising growth of the armed militia movement."

* "A few months after the bombing in Oklahoma City, MC-111 was quietly shut down. Officials reported they could find no such “right-wing conspiracy” in America. The FBI’s VAAPCON Task Force investigation and MC-111 remained secret until a Washington, D.C.-based public interest group, Judicial Watch, discovered faint clues of the surveillance operation. Following up on a tip, Judicial Watch filed a FOIA request and received a tiny number of documents related to the covert operation. Although the government refused to release all the records requested, what the agency did release was sufficient to confirm rumors of the Reno’s efforts to infiltrate and monitor the activities of various Christian-based organizations. While the Department of Justice acknowledges today that the VAAPCON Task Force investigation once existed, it continues to withhold some 100,000 documents, representing the fruits of the pervasive project, citing “privacy considerations” as the rationale for the continued secrecy."

* "A 1969 Freedom of Information request by Judicial Watch obtained hundreds of pages of Justice Department documents. These revealed that VAAPCON had been invoked to authorize spying on at least 900 groups and individuals. Its targets ranged from the Reverend Jerry Falwell and Feminists for Life to the National Rifle Association and the Christian Coalition."

* "To put VAAPCON in perspective imagine the Bush administration targeting the Sierra Club, Robert Kennedy, Jr. and Al Gore to deal with the issue of the Unabomber or environmentalist violence in general. Then imagine this being done while al Qaeda was actively plotting to destroy America."

* "VAAPCON was also designed to help enforce FACE, the Clintons’ 1994 law called the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. FACE is a peculiarly anti-First Amendment law that denies the right to free speech to certain groups but not others. Union protestors could legally block an abortion clinic access with a picket line while carrying signs that read: “Abortion Workers on Strike for Higher Wages! Local 69, AFL-CIO.” But those same protestors could be arrested and imprisoned if their signs read, “Mothers, think twice before aborting your baby.”

* "Conspiracy statutes have long been used as heavy artillery to ratchet up penalties for offenses. If, for instance, a six-year-old boy steals a piece of chewing gum, he has committed a misdemeanor, but if he conspires with a second boy to steal the stick of gum, the conspiracy could become a felony.

* "But merely to be under surveillance, as the ACLU is fond of saying, casts a chilling shadow of implied guilt or suspicion over its targets. Questioned by Congressman Charles Taylor, R-NC, the FBI told him the VAAPCON “database only contained information on groups known to be or suspected of being involved in criminal activities.” By letting the public know that belonging to a peaceful organization or church opposed to abortion could get you a government dossier, the Clintons apparently were also trying to chill free speech and anti-abortion activism.

* "So if you were close to the late Cardinal O’Connor, or called him to discuss personal or family problems – even personal sins – to him, you may have been wiretapped and recorded by the Clinton’s VAAPCON surveillance. In that sense, the Clinton administration may have literally bugged the confessional.

* "The ACLU has voiced no objection to this, nor has it demanded that VAAPCON tapes and dossiers be destroyed as unconstitutional invasions of religious privacy.

* "The VAAPCON database information included much more than abortion issues and questions of potential protests and violence. Its dossiers also carried a wide array of information about the positions targeted groups and individuals took on such issues as homosexuality, school prayer, the Clinton administration, and other issues having nothing to do with terrorism. These were political dossiers, as Insight documented, that could be used to identify and target ideological opponents of the Clintons."

* "Later in 2000 when [Insight magazine] asked two FBI officials if the information on these peaceful groups if still collected, they both answered yes and that information was being added continually, although one admitted that the information on them probably should not be in there."

* "Wendy Wright of Concerned Women for America -- whose group was among those targeted -- explains tactics during that campaign included wiretaps, mail monitoring, and infiltrators. "It was a campaign of investigating and, frankly, intimidating pro-life and religious leaders," says Wright. "The Department of Justice [under Attorney General Janet Reno] investigated groups like [us], the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, Christian Coalition, National Right to Life, and even the [late] Catholic cardinal of New York, John O'Connor."

* "Feminists for Life, a totally peaceful women's rights organization that you've probably heard of, was on the VAAPCOM list for being investigated. Its director said this: “I remember, when I first came on this job in 1994, I heard clicks on my phone all the time. It was a chronic joke – `Oh, there goes the FBI again.' But then, about the time the FBI shut down the VAAPCOM investigation, the mysterious clicking stopped.” Being told that they were not being investigated was not very comforting to them.

* "Tom Ficken, president of Judicial Watch, which is investigating this, said, “These groups have reason to be concerned. Remember, we only have a paltry amount of these documents. Well over 100,000 of them continue to be withheld by this administration. There's a lot of VAAPCOM information still being kept secret, and it may take a Congressional investigation to find out what really happened here.”

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the more than 900 targets of all this surveillance included:

Jerry Falwell
Pat Robertson
Roman Catholic Cardinal of New York John O’Connor
National Conference of Catholic Bishops
the National Rifle Association
National Right to Life
Concerned Women For America
Americans United for Life
Feminists for Life
Women's Coalition for Life
American Life League
the Christian Coalition
Beverly LaHaye's Concerned Women for America
Life Dynamics

VAAPCON part 2

recent troubling articles pointing towards a potential new VAAPCON-like situation:

1. March 2009: Missouri Gov. Nixon Backs Down on Report Putting Pro-Lifers in Criminal Profiling
http://www.lifenews.com/state3996.html

2. report: Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment
http://www.fas.org/irp/eprint/rightwing.pdf

April 2009: Confirmed: The Obama DHS hit job on conservatives is real
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/04/14/confirme-the-obama-dhs-hit-job-on-conservatives-is-real/

"...Rightwing extremism in the United States can be broadly divided into those groups, movements, and adherents that are primarily hate-oriented (based on hatred of particular religious, racial or ethnic groups), and those that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely. It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration..."

3. May, 2009:

a) "...Attorney General Eric Holder released a statement responding to Tiller's murder, promising that "Federal law enforcement is coordinating with local law enforcement officials in Kansas on the investigation of this crime, and I have directed the United States Marshals Service to offer protection to other appropriate people and facilities around the nation." He also pledged to take steps to prevent related acts of violence..."

http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=why_clinic_violence_is_obamas_problem

b) "...The Obama administration also announced that it recently convened a meeting of the National Task Force on Violence Against Reproductive Health Care Providers, an interagency law enforcement working group within the Justice Department..."

http://www.lifenews.com/state4211.html

c) Pro-lifers Defamed in the Wake of Tiller’s Death

"...Kim Grady, of the National Organization for Women (NOW), has started the defamation of the prolife movement by calling for the Department of Justice to “prosecute as domestic terrorists and violent racketeers the criminal enterprise that has organized and funded criminal acts for decades." But all the leading pro-life groups have already condemned the violent act. We don’t need the Feds to police our organizations!

The language of Grady is troubling. It sounds very much like that which the Clinton Administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) under Janet Reno used to harass and prosecute peaceful pro-lifers under RICO statutes originally written to stop organized crime.

In February of 2006, after a long and expensive legal battle, racketeering charges against Joe Scheidler and other pro-lifers were thrown out by an 8-1 vote of the US Supreme Court.

We will be vigilantly watching to see if there will be a politicization of the DOJ under Janet Napolitano. Pro-abortion organizations and politicians may attempt to exploit this terrible event to resurrect their discredited accusations and to pass laws to restrict pro-life activities and or silence pro-life speech..."

http://www.christianadc.org/news-and-articles/324-pro-lifers-defamed-in-the-wake-of-tillers-death

d) Justice Department Launches Investigation into Federal Crimes in Connection with the Murder of Dr. George Tiller

"The Department's Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Kansas have launched a federal investigation into federal crimes in connection with the murder of Dr. George Tiller. The federal probe will consist of a thorough review of the evidence and an assessment of any potential violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE Act) or other federal statutes. The federal investigation will be conducted in close coordination with the Office of the Sedgwick County, Kan., District Attorney, and the state's ongoing murder prosecution will have the full support of federal investigators.

The FACE Act was enacted by Congress in 1994 to establish federal criminal penalties and civil remedies for violent, obstructionist or damaging conduct affecting reproductive health care providers and recipients.

"The Department of Justice will work tirelessly to determine the full involvement of any and all actors in this horrible crime, and to ensure that anyone who played a role in the offense is prosecuted to the full extent of federal law," said Loretta King, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division. "We will conduct a thorough investigation that will complement and build upon the fine work of the Sedgwick County District Attorney and other state and local law enforcement agencies."

Following the May 31, 2009, murder, the Attorney General directed the U.S. Marshals Service to offer protection to appropriate people and facilities around the country. The U.S. Marshals Service has moved expeditiously to implement the Attorney General’s directive with the assistance of the reproductive health care service providers and organizations throughout the country.

In an effort to coordinate the federal government’s efforts in response to the shooting of Dr. Tiller, the Civil Rights Division recently convened a meeting of the National Task Force on Violence Against Reproductive Health Care Providers, an interagency law enforcement working group that includes attorneys from the Civil Rights Division and the Criminal Division, and law enforcement officials from the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the U.S. Marshals Service and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service. This task force was established more than a decade ago to commit resources to the reduction of threats and violence against health care providers on a national level."

http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2009/June/09-crt-555.html

4. Feb. 2010:

Wisconsin pro-life groups illegally investigated by the government and by police
http://www.cassyfiano.com/2010/02/wisconsin-pro-life-groups-illegally-investigated-by-the-government-and-by-police
Is This Former Stay-at-Home Mom Our Greatest Security Threat?
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=35591

5. March 2010:

Weir Waves Napolitano's 'Right-wing Extremism' Report To Brand Bedell
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2010/03/06/gma-casts-dem-truther-bedell-dem-hating-right-wing-extremist

6. "According to Wright, the problem is that some of the same people responsible for VAAPCON who worked in the Reno Justice Department are now holding key positions in the Eric Holder-led Justice Department."

a) "Among them is Holder himself, who was Reno's deputy attorney general;"

Eric Holder: Attorney General

"...Holder stepped down from the bench in 1993 to accept an appointment for U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia from then-President Bill Clinton.

...He was a U.S. Attorney until his elevation to Deputy Attorney General in 1997.

In 1997, after the retirement of Jamie Gorelick, Clinton nominated Holder to be the next Deputy Attorney General under Janet Reno. Holder was confirmed several months later in the Senate by a unanimous vote.

...In late 2007, Holder joined then-United States Senator Barack Obama's presidential campaign as a senior legal advisor. He served on Obama's vice presidential selection committee.

...On December 1, 2008, Obama announced that Holder would be his nominee for Attorney General. He was formally nominated on January 20, 2009 and approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee on January 28. Following his confirmation by the full Senate on February 2, 2009, he became the first African-American Attorney General of the United States. His installation took place on March 27, 2009 at the Lisner Auditorium of the George Washington University."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Holder

b) "and David Ogden, who is now Holder's deputy."

David Ogden, Deputy Attorney General:

Ogden is currently a partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr and serves as the Department of Justice Agency Review lead for the Obama-Biden Transition Project. Ogden was nominated by President Clinton to serve as Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division from in 1999 and served in this capacity until 2001. He was awarded the Edmund J. Randolph Award for Outstanding Service in 2001. From 1998 - 1999, he served as Chief of Staff to Attorney General Janet Reno and as Counselor to the Attorney General from 1997-1998. From 1995-1997, Ogden served as Associate Deputy Attorney General at the Department of Justice, and from 1994 -1995 served as Deputy General Counsel, Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Defense. Ogden was a partner at Jenner and Block in Washington, DC from 1988-1994 and worked at the law firm of Ennis Friedman & Bersoff from 1983-1988. He clerked for Associate Justice Harry A. Blackmun in the U.S. Supreme Court from 1982-1983 and for Judge Abraham D. Sofaer in the Southern District Court of New York from 1981-1982. He received his B.A. in English literature from the University of Pennsylvania in 1976 (summa cum laude) and his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1981 (magna cum laude). He served on the Harvard Law Review from 1979-81."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/05/post_201_n_155274.html

c) Dawn Johnsen

"What is Johnsen being nominated for again? Obama has been working overtime to make good on the promise he made to Planned Parenthood during his campaign, saying, “There will always be people, many of good will, who do not share my view on the issue of choice. On this fundamental issue, I will not yield and Planned Parenthood will not yield.” You got that right.

So if the promotion of abortion at all costs is the end game here, then perhaps Obama should just commission Planned Parenthood to function as the Justice Department. At least it would save the taxpayers some money. Oh wait, Planned Parenthood already get millions of taxpayer dollars. Well then, perhaps attorneys could wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers: “DOJ brought to you by NARAL Pro-Choice America.” It would make much more sense than what Obama is currently doing.

Now, I know many of Dawn Johnsen’s supporters are quick to point out that she already served at the Department of Justice under former President Bill Clinton. And I’m glad they bring that up, because she should probably be asked about VAAPCOM.

What is VAAPCOM, you ask? Well, it was the “Violence Against Abortion Providers Conspiracy” investigation that was discovered by Judicial Watch, a watchdog organization, after a Freedom of Information Act request. The documents revealed that the Justice Department under Janet Reno started an investigation in 1994 — while Johnsen was a deputy assistant attorney general — where they pressured the FBI to investigate pro-life organizations and its supporters.

Apparently they sought to prove there was a national conspiracy of pro-life “extremists” who were attacking abortion clinics. After months of monitoring several organizations, including Concerned Women for America (CWA), the Christian Coalition and the National Right to Life Committee, among others, the FBI failed to come up with anything. And though the FBI wanted to end the investigation, the DOJ pressured them to continue.

Someone should ask Johnsen, and any other candidate involved with the Clinton DOJ at the time, if they have any knowledge of such investigations. Is this the type of “work” we can expect to see again from the DOJ? Looking at resumes like Dawn Johnsen’s, it wouldn’t surprise me.

You don’t hire professional hunters unless you want to catch a prey."

Dawn Johnsen, Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel

"Johnsen is currently a Professor of Law at the Indiana University School of Law--Bloomington, where she teaches and writes about issues of constitutional law. Her recent publications on issues of presidential power include Faithfully Executing the Laws: Internal Legal Constraints on Executive Power, 54 UCLA L. Rev. 1559 (2007) and What's a President to Do? Interpreting the Constitution in the Wake of the Bush Administration's Abuses, 88 Boston U. L. Rev. 395 (2008). She serves on the board of directors of the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy. She served in the Office of Legal Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice, as the acting assistant attorney general heading that office (1997-98) and as a deputy assistant attorney general (1993-96). In that capacity, she provided constitutional and other legal advice to the attorney general, the President, and the general counsels of the various executive branch agencies. From 1988-93, she was the legal director of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL). She clerked for the Honorable Richard D. Cudahy, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. She received a B.A from Yale University in 1983 and a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1986."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/05/post_201_n_155274.html

Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel
http://judiciary.senate.gov/nominations/AssistantAttorneyGeneralOLC-DawnJohnsen.cfm

click on "Janet Reno"

"President Obama announced his intention to nominate Dawn Johnsen to be the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel on January 5, 2009. A hearing to consider the nomination was held on February 25, 2009. An archived webcast is available. icon_webcastThe Judiciary Committee ordered the nomination reported to the Senate for consideration on March 19, 2009."

Feb 10, 2010:
Dawn Johnsen May Receive Recess Appointment, Perhaps Supreme Court Seat
http://lifenews.com/nat5990.html

d) Thomas Perrelli, Jr.: Associate Attorney General

"Perrelli is currently Managing Partner of Jenner & Block's Washington, DC office. He is Co-Chair of the Firm's Entertainment and New Media Practice and is a member of the Firm's Litigation Department. From 1997-99, Mr. Perrelli served as counsel to Attorney General Janet Reno, supervising a variety of civil matters at the Department of Justice. He subsequently rose to Deputy Assistant Attorney General (1999-2001), supervising the Federal Programs Branch of the Civil Division. In 2005, Perrelli was named one of the nation's 40 most promising lawyers under 40 by The National Law Journal for exhibiting "extraordinary achievements" in his career. He has been recognized as one of the leading media and entertainment lawyers in the United States by Chambers & Partners USA, named as one of 500 "New Stars" by Lawdragon in 2006, and named Best Intellectual Property Lawyer in Washington D.C. by the Washington Business Journal in 2008. Prior to joining Jenner & Block, in 1991-92, Perrelli clerked for the Honorable Royce C. Lamberth of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Perrelli graduated from Harvard Law School, magna cum laude, in 1991, where he was managing editor of the Harvard Law Review. He received an A.B. in History from Brown University in 1988."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/05/post_201_n_155274.html

"Perrelli is best known as the right-to-kill lawyer who represented Terry Schiavo’s husband pro-bono in his suit to euthanize his wife.”16 Perrelli, who vigorously defended against the government’s intervention in the case, said that he became involved “not to be part of a difficult struggle in a family, but once the government got involved, when the legislative and executive branch got involved to take the decision away from the courts. . . . Both the Florida statute and the federal statute were really attacks on the judiciary.”17 Family Research Council’s Tom McClusky described Perrelli’s nomination to the Justice Department as “detrimental” to the cause of the pro-life movements (a statement for which he was dubbed “worst person in the world” by MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann).18 The Washington Times reports that, according to McClusky, “having Perrelli at the department means pro-life causes would have a tougher time winning” debates on end-of-life issues that reach the federal level during the Obama Administration."

http://obamanoms.com/FILES/ACLJ%20Memo%20-%20Thomas%20J.%20Perrelli,%20Obama%20Nominee%20for%20Associate%20Attorney%20General%20(012109).pdf

e) Elena Kagan, Solicitor General:

"Kagan, the Charles Hamilton Houston Professor of Law, is currently the 11th Dean of Harvard Law School. Kagan first came to Harvard Law School as a visiting professor in 1999 and became Professor of Law in 2001. She has taught administrative law, constitutional law, civil procedure, and seminars on issues involving the separation of powers. She was appointed Dean of the Law School in 2003. From 1995 to 1999, Kagan served in the White House, first as Associate Counsel to the President (1995-96) and then as Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy and Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Council (1997-99). In those positions she played a key role in the executive branch's formulation, advocacy, and implementation of law and policy in areas ranging from education to crime to public health. Kagan launched her scholarly career at the University of Chicago Law School, where she became an assistant professor in 1991 and a tenured professor of law in 1995. Kagan clerked for Judge Abner Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from 1986 to 1987. The next year she clerked for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. She then worked as an associate in the Washington, D.C. law firm of Williams & Connolly from 1989 to 1991. Kagan received her bachelor's degree from Princeton in 1981 (summa cum laude). She attended Worcester College, Oxford, as Princeton's Daniel M. Sachs Graduating Fellow, and received an M. Phil. in 1983. She then attended Harvard Law School, where she was supervising editor of the Harvard Law Review, and graduated magna cum laude in 1986."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/05/post_201_n_155274.html

"Kagan also played a role in shaping Clinton's policy on hate crimes."

http://obamanoms.com/FILES/ACLJ%20Memo%20-%20Elena%20Kagan,%20Obama%20Nominee%20for%20Solicitor%20General%20(012109).pdf
Sonya Ross, Clinton Opens Hate Crimes Conference, ASSOCIATED PRESS, Nov. 10, 1997

VAAPCON part 3

National Task Force on Violence Against Health Care Providers
http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/crim/tfreppub.php

"...In August 1994, the Attorney General established the Task Force on Violence Against Abortion Providers (often referred to as "VAAPCON"). VAAPCON was charged with determining whether there was a nationwide conspiracy to commit acts of violence against reproductive health care providers. While the evidence gathered did not support a definitive conclusion as to the existence of a nationwide conspiracy, VAAPCON played an important role in the early implementation of FACE and also reinforced to law enforcement officials the availability of other federal criminal statutes to address clinic violence. Indeed, VAAPCON's coordinated activity resulted in a great increase in the flow of information concerning risks faced by providers and in the number of criminal and civil cases successfully prosecuted by the Department, and its work generated much information that is relevant to current investigations.

In January 1995, President Clinton directed each of the 93 United States Attorneys to establish a local task force to coordinate law enforcement efforts relating to clinic violence. These working groups have remained in place since that time, and include representatives from state and local law enforcement as well as representatives from the FBI, ATF, and US Marshals Service. They are designed to maximize the level of coordination and communication among law enforcement officials in the field. They are also intended to improve communications between providers and law enforcement to assess and address threats and other security risks more effectively.

As VAAPCON was phased out in 1996, the responsibility for coordinating the law enforcement response to clinic violence was transferred to the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. Cases were worked according to normal procedures in the Criminal and Special Litigation Sections in cooperation with United States Attorney's offices and investigative agencies. To help ensure effective communication, the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights established a Working Group on Abortion Violence with participants from the Criminal and Special Litigation Sections, the FBI, ATF, the USMS and the Executive Office for the United States Attorneys. The Working Group met monthly to facilitate coordination on a national level...."

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The documents accompanying this story (in GIF format) are in two categories:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010701140524/http://www.insightmag.com/VAAPCON.shtml

Category 1: Three documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, from the FBI and the Justice Department. They show summary snippets on such groups as the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, Americans United for Life and Women's Coalition for Life (labeled by the government as "NOT PARTICIPATING IN DIRECT ACTION") and groups such as Operation Rescue and Rescue America (labeled by the government as "DIRECT ACTION GROUPS").
http://web.archive.org/web/20010701140524/http://www.insightmag.com/FOIAdocs.shtml

Category 2: Two FBI documents written in response earlier this year to questions posed by Rep. Charles Taylor, North Carolina Republican, concerning the types of files and such that are or have been maintained by the Bureau on Pro-Life groups.
http://web.archive.org/web/20010701140524/http://www.insightmag.com/FBIdocs.shtml

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Documents on VAAPCON obtained by Insight through the Freedom of Information Act:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010822225328/www.insightmag.com/FOIAdocs.shtml

Document 1
http://web.archive.org/web/20010822225328/http://www.insightmag.com/FOIAdocument1.shtml

Document 2
http://web.archive.org/web/20010822225328/http://www.insightmag.com/FOIAdocument2.shtml

Document 3
http://web.archive.org/web/20010822225328/http://www.insightmag.com/FOIAdocument3.shtml

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FBI Documents obtained by Insight written in response to questions asked by Republican Rep. Charles Taylor of North Carolina:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010822225315/www.insightmag.com/FBIdocs.shtml

Document 1
http://web.archive.org/web/20010822225315/http://www.insightmag.com/FBIdocument1.shtml

Document 2
http://web.archive.org/web/20010822225315/http://www.insightmag.com/FBIdocument2.shtml

VAAPCON part 4

from 1999:

Clinton Justice Department/FBI keeps computer database on pro-life leaders
Judicial Watch Files Lawsuit to Uncover Documents and Information; Judicial Watch Told Some in FBI Opposed Database - But Were Overruled by Clinton Justice Department
http://www.judicialwatch.org/archive/1999/257.shtml

FBI DATABASE ON US PRO-LIFERS DISCOVERED
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/1999/jul/99071302.html

from 2000:

DR. JERRY FALWELL SUES WHITE HOUSE AND JUSTICE DEPARTMENT OVER VIOLATION OF PRIVACY RIGHTS
LIKELY TARGET OF ILLEGAL CLINTON JUSTICE DEPARTMENT DATABASE ON RELIGIOUS AND PRO-LIFE LEADERS
http://www.judicialwatch.org/archive/2000/418.shtml

FALWELL SUES WHITE HOUSE OVER DATABASE ON PRO-LIFERS
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2000/jan/00012502.html

*** FBI SPIES ON CATHOLIC BISHOPS
http://www.freecongress.org/centers/tp/BAK/ccl/000629.asp

FBI DATABASE MONITORS PRO-LIFERS AND CATHOLIC BISHOPS
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2000/jun/00062602.html

*** Insight Exclusive Update!!!
Bishops Respond to Insight Exclusive on FBI "criminal" database on pro-life groups!
http://web.archive.org/web/20010910151520/www.insightmag.com/cgi-bin/ViewNews.cfm?Item=113

*** Catholic Bishops, Pro-Lifers Under Fed Surveillance
http://web.archive.org/web/20050114001031/http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/6/25/164336

US BISHOPS DENOUNCE DATABASE ON PRO-LIFERS
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2000/jun/00062704.html

*** FBI Misled Congressman About Tracking Pro-Lifers
http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg45610.html

Braveheart,' Catholics and the New World Order
http://archive.newsmax.com/commentmax/get.pl?a=2000/6/27/204215

*** PRO-LIFERS AS ‘TERRORISTS'?
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a395ef7b7751e.htm

FEDERAL COURT HEARING TODAY IN FALWELL LAWSUIT OVER WHITE HOUSE FILES, FBI DATABASE ON RELIGIOUS AND PRO-LIFE LEADERS
Rev. Jerry Falwell Sues White House, FBI on Illegal Files and VAAPCON Database
http://www.judicialwatch.org/archive/2000/584.shtml

CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION OF THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
HEARING BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE CONSTITUTION
OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
ONE HUNDRED SIXTH CONGRESS
SECOND SESSION
http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/judiciary/hju67163.000/hju67163_0f.htm

Government monitoring bishops
Part of secret pro-life database
http://us.catholic.net/rcc/Periodicals/Igpress/2000-08/w-us.html

Radio Transcript
LIFE ISSUES NO. 2429
VAAPCOM
http://www.lifeissues.org/radio/r2000/r00-10/lr2429.html

SECRET U.S. GOVERNMENT PROJECT SPIES ON PRO-LIFE GROUPS - (Print)
http://www.khouse.org/enews/2000-10-31#5

from 2001:

Memo to Robert Mueller - Your Real Job at the FBI
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/7/31/204237.shtml

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"While the FBI’s first search for documents did not uncover any records pertaining to Falwell, later searches did reveal such records. From October 1999 to September 2000, the FBI released documents to Falwell that it had found pertaining to him. The FBI first searched its Central Records System (“CRS”) using its Universal Index and then conducted a more particularized search for documents using computer systems called Rapid Start-VAAPCON and VAAPCON Application.

"In 1994, the FBI began an investigation into violence against health care providers called VAAPCON (Violence Against Abortion Providers Conspiracy). Rapid Start VAAPCON and VAAPCON Application were internalized computerized sub-systems of the Central Records System. These computer sub-systems were used by the FBI as management tools to assist with the organization of information within the CRS. The court assumes that when Falwell refers to the VAAPCON database in his complaint, he means these computer sub-systems"

http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:qTBHByUv9S0J:www.vawd.uscourts.gov/OPINIONS/WILSON/600CV0005(2).PDF+VAAPCON&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

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from 2003:

PATRIOT ACT AND THOUGHT CRIMES [Rod Dreher]
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YmVjOTA5ODgwZGQzNTQwMTUzZmU1M2Q5NWExM2NlNWQ=


*** Christian Terrorism?
http://www.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=17856

from 2005:

*** Not all spying troubles ACLU and New York Times
http://www.cashill.com/natl_general/not_all_spying.htm

from 2006:

*** Clinton's Other Domestic Spying Program
http://www.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=5460

*** The Catholic Church was the bigger threat
http://media.www.thetriangle.org/media/storage/paper689/news/2006/03/03/EdOp/The-Catholic.Church.Was.The.Bigger.Threat-1654626.shtml

from 2008?

VAAPCON and Big Brother’s New Agenda
http://www.culturejamforlife.com/specialreports/silencing_of_dissent.php

from 2009:

What Are the Priorities for the U.S. Justice Department?
http://townhall.com/columnists/MarioDiaz/2009/03/23/what_are_the_priorities_for_the_us_justice_department?page=full&comments=true

Missouri Gov. Nixon Backs Down on Report Putting Pro-Lifers in Criminal Profiling
http://www.lifenews.com/state3996.html

Pro-lifers concerned about potential DOJ scrutiny
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=468188

Charge! Let the Fight Against ‘Right Wing Extremists’ Begin
http://www.cwfa.org/articles/16838/LEGAL/freedom/index.htm

Homeland Security Targets Abortion Opposition as Warning Sign of "Rightwing Extremism"
Department document authored under virulent pro-abort Janet Napolitano
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/apr/09041510.html

History Repeats Itself With DHS Smear
http://www.cashill.com/natl_general/history_repeats.htm

Bi-partisan House committee to investigate DHS "domestic terrorist" report
http://www.jillstanek.com/archives/2009/05/repressive_fasc.html


Pro-lifers Defamed in the Wake of Tiller’s Death
http://www.christianadc.org/news-and-articles/324-pro-lifers-defamed-in-the-wake-of-tillers-death

The Ghost of Reno Rides Again
http://www.markcrutcherblog.com/index.cfm/2009/6/4/The-Ghost-of-Reno-Rides-Again

Justice Department Launches Investigation into Federal Crimes in Connection with the Murder of Dr. George Tiller
http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2009/June/09-crt-555.html

The T Word
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/thayer/70612

Pentagon pulls description of protesters as 'terrorists'
But term apparently used by law enforcement 'regularly'
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=101608

from 2010:

from Feb.:
Homeland Security Collected Information on Wisconsin Abortion, Pro-Life Activists
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/61104
Department of Homeland Security prepared threat assessment on Wisconsin pro-life activity
http://www.prolifewisconsin.org/news_story.asp?id=277
Feds admit they wronged pro-lifers
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=892000
Wisconsin pro-life groups illegally investigated by the government and by police
http://www.cassyfiano.com/2010/02/wisconsin-pro-life-groups-illegally-investigated-by-the-government-and-by-police
Is This Former Stay-at-Home Mom Our Greatest Security Threat?
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=35591

from March:
Weir Waves Napolitano's 'Right-wing Extremism' Report To Brand Bedell
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2010/03/06/gma-casts-dem-truther-bedell-dem-hating-right-wing-extremist