tap, spy, and conduct training missions with foreign troops on US soil, explaining "But it's for your own protection."
The author deliberately misleads in her remark that liberals "are convinced that the Bush administration is on the verge of creating a police state." To be sure, the United States was already a veritable police state before 9/11. Between 1956 and 1971, the FBI's Counter Intelligence Program, COINTELPRO, conducted illegal and unconstitutional investigations and disruptions of dissident political organizations within the U.S. Over 2000 operations in all were aimed at communist and socialist organizations, women's rights groups, black nationalist groups, non-violent civil rights activists, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the NAACP, the Congress of Racial Equali
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