{"id":13459,"date":"2013-11-08T18:02:06","date_gmt":"2013-11-09T01:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=13459"},"modified":"2013-11-08T18:02:06","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T01:02:06","slug":"the-fbi-makes-mistakes-sometimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2013\/11\/08\/the-fbi-makes-mistakes-sometimes\/","title":{"rendered":"the fbi makes mistakes sometimes."},"content":{"rendered":"

Gotta love this explanation from the FBI as to why it was monitoring the website “antiwar dot com”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On 12 September 2001, Garris received an email with the subject line \u00e2\u20ac\u0153YOUR SITE IS GOING DOWN.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Be warned assholes, ill be posting your site address to all the hack boards tonight, telling them about the little article at the moscowtimes and all. YOUR SITE IS HISTORY,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the unredacted parts of the email read.\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Concerned, Garris forwarded the threatening email to the FBI field office in San Francisco, where he lives. (It is contained in the disclosed FBI documents.) \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It was a threat and I wanted to report it,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Garris said.\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

But by 7 January 2002, someone in the field office characterized the message as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153A THREAT BY GARRIS TO HACK FBI WEBSITE.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

According to unredacted portions of the documents, that apparent mix-up was the first time antiwar.com came onto the FBI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s radar \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a purview that would last at least six years.<\/em><\/p>\n

How convenient?<\/p>\n

Reminds me of something<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Other agents tracked down the company that made the VDC’s anti-war buttons and dropped in on the owner.\u00c2\u00a0 He revealed that the committee had ordered thousands of pins reading HOT DAMN!\u00c2\u00a0 VIETNAM DAY COMMITEE, displaying President Johnson’s picture upside down.\u00c2\u00a0 The buttons were of particular interest, according to an agent’s report, because “President Johnson has now become aware that his picture has been displayed in VDC demonstrations in an upside down manner.\u00c2\u00a0 He is provoked about this.”<\/em><\/p>\n

An Upside down manner?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gotta love this explanation from the FBI as to why it was monitoring the website “antiwar dot com”. On 12 September 2001, Garris received an email with the subject line \u00e2\u20ac\u0153YOUR SITE IS GOING DOWN.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Be warned assholes, ill be posting your site address to all the hack boards tonight, telling them about the little […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13461,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13459\/revisions\/13461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}