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George W. Bush has reemerged.
Our policy director @ChipGibbons89 will be on the @SantitaJ show tomorrow at 7:30 ET/6:30 CT to discuss his legacy.
We also hear he's working on a piece for @jacobin on this topic.👀
Former President George W. Bush: “The decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq. I mean of Ukraine.”
This is from Hoover's FBI. Yet, the FBI uses similar language today to defame racial justice activists and justify surveilling them as "terrorists."
The FBI may have rebranded, but it hasn't changed.
Here's a typically unhinged FBI memo from 1971 expressing concern about a "new breed of subversive individual" the "revolutionary black extremist" who "with a seething hatred of the white establishment will assassinate, explode, or otherwise destroy white America."
Opposition to the DHS disinformation board was not limited to the far-right or proponents of disinformation.
There were serious, civil liberties concerns raised across the spectrum that this article erases.
Talk about disinformation!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/05/18/disinformation-board-dhs-nina-jankowicz/
Congress is poised to vote on the Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act.
Recently, we laid out to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board our longterm concerns with how FBI efforts to counter domestic terrorism impact First Amendment rights.
https://www.rightsanddissent.org/news/defending-rights-dissent-urges-privacy-and-civil-liberties-oversight-board-to-consider-first-amendment-implications-of-fbi-domestic-terrorism-investigations/
A ruling on the US's extradition request for Julian Assange could come at any moment.
Here's what we told UK Home Secretary @pritipatel.
https://www.rightsanddissent.org/news/defending-rights-dissent-urges-uk-to-reject-extradition-request-for-julian-assange/