Well, we can
relax, because the bad
old days of the Bush administration, when government agencies
routinely spied on the antiwar movement and other dissidents, are
over – right?
Wrong –
very wrong.
The indispensable
Amy Goodman has the
scoop: The Seattle Port Militarization Resistance (SPMR)
group in Washington state thought their listserv coordinator, who
went by the name "John Jacob," was one of them: a dedicated
antiwar activist and self-described anarchist. They trusted him,
they put him in a key position, they befriended him – and then
they found out that he was a government informant.
His real name:
John Towery (here’s
his myspace page, and here is a photo).
He claimed to be a civilian employee at Washington state’s
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