[IP] Capitol Police abuse of power upon leaving a Congressional hearing on FBI abuses of our civil liberties

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Shannon McElyea <shannonm@gmail.com>
Date: March 27, 2007 11:00:49 AM EDT
To: David Farber <dave@farber.net>, "'Dewayne Hendricks'"  
<dewayne@warpspeed.com>
Subject: Capitol Police abuse of power upon leaving a Congressional  
hearing on FBI abuses of our civil liberties

Ann Wright asks:  "...Who runs the US Congress? The Congress or the  
Capitol
Police? ..."

Why a Congressman Paid the Fine for My Arrest in Congress

  By Ann Wright
    t r u t h o u t | Guest Contributor

    Monday 26 March 2007

    What irony! I was arrested last week in a Capitol Police abuse  
of power
upon leaving a Congressional hearing on FBI abuses of our civil  
liberties.

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http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032607B.shtml


    Ann Wright is a 29-year US Army veteran who retired as a  
colonel. She
also spent 16 years in the US diplomatic corps in Grenada, Nicaragua,
Somalia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Sierra Leone, Micronesia and  
Mongolia. She
was on the first team into Kabul, Afghanistan, to reopen the US Embassy
there in December 2001. She was one of three US diplomats who  
resigned in
March 2003 in opposition to the war in Iraq.



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