Kevin Bankston, EFF’s Equal Justice Works/Bruce J. Ennis Fellow, sez, “This is an incredible, two part series in Salon about cops spying on political activists post-9/11. It is an absolute must read.”

“What we’re seeing is something much larger in scale and danger than anything that occurred in the 1950s and 1960s,” he says. “That’s because of computers. Now, instead of having these agencies working in semi-isolation or occasional cooperation, there’s the equivalent of the great Alaska pipeline running between them, and the information flows in both directions. In addition, in the 1950s or ’60s, it took weeks of pavement pounding and doorknobbing for the FBI or police or military to collect personal information about people, the kind of information you need to put them under surveillance. Today that kind of information can be obtained by a few computer keystrokes. The harassment potential is much greater.”

Part1 Link, Part2 Link