San Mateo County Times

12/27/05

President Bush's authorizing warrantless wiretaps within the United States grabbed headlines last week, but a pattern of domestic snooping stretches back to California and the weeks after 9/11. Almost daily, it seems, new revelations emerge about domestic surveillance programs. U.S. News & World Report reported Friday that the government has been secretly monitoring radiation levels at mosques and other private Muslim buildings in six U.S. cities outside California. The New York Times reported Thursday that undercover city police had infiltrated political protest groups in New York City. A week earlier NBC News reported that the Pentagon had assembled a 400-page database listing 'threats' from domestic protesters, including the Quakers. The document listed 1,500 'suspicious incidents' over 10 months in 2004 and 2005. An eight-page excerpt posted on the MSNBC Web site includes six entries in California, including protests at military recruiting offices at the University of California's Berkeley and Santa Cruz campuses...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp