It Would Be a Shame Not to Ask James Comey These Questions About the FBI While He’s Under Oath
“It would be a shame to have Comey testify under oath and leave unasked important questions about FBI misconduct,” writes Amy Goodman. She poses four questions for James Comey in her latest column:
1. How far-reaching is the FBI’s surveillance of journalists?
2. Why did the FBI label nonviolent water protectors at Standing Rock, North Dakota, possible domestic terrorists? What about the FBI’s similar infiltration of Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter?
3. Regarding the FBI’s illegal COINTELPRO suppression of dissent in the ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s, how many of those targeted who are still incarcerated, such as American Indian Movement activist Leonard Peltier, and the many imprisoned former Black Panthers, were imprisoned based on FBI misconduct?
4. Where do you think we would be, as a country, if the FBI hadn’t targeted Martin Luther King Jr., with its unrelenting campaign of surveillance, intimidation and harassment, which very likely contributed to the climate of hate that led to his assassination?






