Small legal victory for anti-war activists in Minneapolis and other cities

[Eric J in MN]

On Feb. 26, the U.S. District Attorney in Chicago was forced to unseal the applications and affidavits submitted in advance of raids involving over 70 FBI agents on the homes of nearly two-dozen antiwar and Palestine solidarity activists in Minneapolis, Chicago, and Grand Rapids, Mich.

The documents reveal that the government carried out a McCarthyite operation based on a collection of lies and out-of-context statements collected over a period of years by a government informant sent into the Twin Cities Antiwar Coalition at the time of the Republican National Convention held in that region in 2008.

...The activists, whose story is told on the website of their defense group, the Committee to Stop FBI Repression (http://www.stopfbi.net), are meeting with their attorneys to discuss what the release of the documents might mean to their legal prospects. They remain under threat of long-standing subpoenas to appear before a Grand Jury investigating “domestic terrorism.” Grand Juries have long been used by the political police in the U.S. to intimidate and silence leaders of the movements for social change.

http://socialistaction.org/2014/03/partial-victory-for-victimized-antiwar-activists/