Targeting for political reasons
2013-06-11 17:58:28.636219+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Spy center missed bomb suspect, watched Jamaica Plain peace activists. The Boston Regional Intelligence Center (BRIC) run by the Boston Police Department with state and federal assistance missed the Tsarnaev brothers, but:
At the same time, BRIC kept extensive spy files on non-criminal activities of peaceful Boston organizations, as an American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts and National Lawyers Guild lawsuit revealed last year. That included a 2007 anti-war event at a Jamaica Plain church that was labeled a “criminal act” by “extremists” by BPD spies reporting to BRIC, as the Gazette previously reported.