Illegal spying and surveillance of US citizens. Circumvention, or outright flouting, of international and domestic laws forbidding kidnapping, "preventive" detention, torture and assassination of suspected security threats. These rogue government activities, and the struggle to bring accountability to them, are all too timely topics as we head into 2010.
They are hardly new issues, however, nor did they emerge ex nihilo after 9-11.
Recalling the still unpunished murder of Black Panther activist Fred Hampton four decades ago by the Chicago police in collusion with the FBI as part of the government's infamous COINTELPRO program, attorney Jeffrey Haas, author of the book The Assassination of Fred Hampton, discusses the threads of continuity connecting government secrecy and crimes then and now.
On the 40th anniversary of Hampton's murder on December 4th Haas spoke with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now.
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