{"id":361,"date":"2004-02-21T07:32:08","date_gmt":"2004-02-21T11:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=361"},"modified":"2004-02-21T07:32:08","modified_gmt":"2004-02-21T11:32:08","slug":"hoover-must-be-smiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=361","title":{"rendered":"Hoover must be smiling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/output\/news\/cst-nws-spy19.html\"><b>Police infiltration of protest groups upsets rights activists <\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"border: 1px dotted #550; font size: 12x; padding: 5px; margin:\n5px;\">Chicago Police officers infiltrated five protest groups in 2002 and launched four other spying operations in 2003 &#8212; actions that civil rights activists are calling outrageous.<\/p>\n<p>The investigations have come in the wake of a court decision that expanded the department&#8217;s intelligence-gathering powers.<\/p>\n<p>In 2002, undercover officers were assigned to attend meetings, rallies and fund-raisers of the Chicago Direct Action Network, the American Friends Service Committee, The Autonomous Zone, Not in Our Name, and Anarchist Black Cross.<\/p>\n<p>Police zeroed in on the groups because protesters were threatening to disrupt the Trans-Atlantic Business Dialogue &#8212; a meeting of international business leaders held in Chicago in 2002 &#8212; according to an internal police audit obtained by the Sun-Times. The department made video and audio recordings of the protests, the audit said.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.prorev.com\">Referrer<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police infiltration of protest groups upsets rights activists Chicago Police officers infiltrated five protest groups in 2002 and launched four other spying operations in 2003 &#8212; actions that civil rights activists are calling outrageous. The investigations have come in the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=361\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-5P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}