{"id":20027,"date":"2013-05-23T11:28:29","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T19:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=20027"},"modified":"2013-05-23T11:29:36","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T19:29:36","slug":"marcy-wheeler-explains-antiwar-coms-suit-against-the-fbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/23\/marcy-wheeler-explains-antiwar-coms-suit-against-the-fbi\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcy Wheeler Explains Antiwar.com&#8217;s Suit Against the FBI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scotthorton.org\/2013\/05\/23\/52213-marcy-wheeler\/\">On The Scott Horton Show yesterday<\/a>, Marcy Wheeler discussed the ACLU\u2019s lawsuit \u2013 filed on behalf of Antiwar.com \u2013 against the FBI for unwarranted surveillance; the FBI memo stating Antiwar.com might be \u201ca threat to national security\u201d and working \u201con behalf of a foreign power;\u201d Justin Raimondo\u2019s controversial columns after 9\/11 about Urban Moving Systems and Israeli \u201cart students\u201d that may have piqued the FBI\u2019s interest; the loss of major donors who worried about being investigated themselves; and evidence that the FBI thinks anti-Zionism is criminal behavior.<\/p>\n<p>I have to thank Marcy for her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emptywheel.net\/2011\/08\/22\/fbi-conducts-threat-assessment-on-antiwar-com-journalists-for-linking-to-publicly-available-document\/\">analysis of the FBI documents<\/a> when they came out, she is able to explain complex government files in a way that regular folk (like me) can understand.   Without Marcy, I am not sure there would be a lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scotthorton.org\/2013\/05\/23\/52213-marcy-wheeler\/\">Listen to the interview at The Scott Horton Show.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On The Scott Horton Show yesterday, Marcy Wheeler discussed the ACLU\u2019s lawsuit \u2013 filed on behalf of Antiwar.com \u2013 against the FBI for unwarranted surveillance; the FBI memo stating Antiwar.com might be \u201ca threat to national security\u201d and working \u201con behalf of a foreign power;\u201d Justin Raimondo\u2019s controversial columns after 9\/11 about Urban Moving Systems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-20027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20027"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20030,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20027\/revisions\/20030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20027"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=20027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}