Infiltrating Quaker Peace Activities
i had heard these rumors, apparantly this is true- the Bush Cheney administration has authroized infiltration of Quaker sponsored Truth Project- shades of the 60s, No?
Where is the outrage?
People's Weekly World - Hearings, lawsuit slam Bush spying defense: "The warrantless spying secretly ordered by Bush in 2001 includes wiretapping by the National Security Agency and a separate Defense Department project, Operation Talon.

Richard Hersh, an activist with the Truth Project in Palm Beach, Fla., which distributes counter-recruitment literature at local high schools, called surveillance directed at him and his group �absolutely ridiculous.�

�We are exercising our constitutional rights,� he told the World. �Our purpose is to educate teenagers, to give them enough information so that they can make an informed choice about whether to enlist in the military, to help them balance the misinformation they are getting from the recruiters.�

NBC News obtained a secret 400-page Pentagon document that listed the Truth Project as a �credible threat� to national security. The Pentagon sent an agent to spy on the group�s first meeting at the Quaker Meeting House in Lake Worth in 2004, one of almost four dozen similar meetings nationwide infiltrated on Bush-Cheney orders.

The report revealed that the Defense Department spy operation kept tabs on 1,500 �suspicious incidents� such as distribution of antiwar leaflets at high schools, peace vigils and town hall meetings.

Eight people are active in the Truth Project, Hersh said, including Quakers, a 79-year-old grandmother and Hersh himself, partially disabled by a nerve disease that often confines him to a wheelchair.

Hersh added with a chuckle, �Yes, I guess we are a �credible threat.� The truth is always a threat to those who are lying. We are always a threat to illegitimate and unjust powers.� "