{"id":4234,"date":"2008-08-02T20:40:46","date_gmt":"2008-08-02T19:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=4234"},"modified":"2008-08-02T20:40:46","modified_gmt":"2008-08-02T19:40:46","slug":"maryland-governor-orders-investigation-of-spying-by-state-troopers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/surveillance-big-brother\/maryland-governor-orders-investigation-of-spying-by-state-troopers\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Governor Orders Investigation of Spying by State Troopers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.progressive.org\/mag\/mr073108a.html\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Rothschild<\/a> |<\/p>\n<p>Maryland Governor Orders Investigation of Spying by State Troopers<\/p>\n<p>On July 31, Maryland Governor Martin O\u2019Malley appointed the former attorney general of the state Stephen Sachs to head up an independent investigation of the spying by state troopers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would like to be able to assure the public that this has been thoroughly investigated<br \/>\nand reviewed,&#8221; the governor said, according to an account in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/07\/31\/AR2008073101505.html\">The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The ACLU recently revealed that Maryland state troopers had been spying on and<br \/>\ninfiltrating groups that opposed the Iraq War and the death penalty.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.progressive.org\/mag\/mc071708.html\">I interviewed one of those activists who was targeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement of the Sachs investigation, which is expected to last a month or two, is \u201can important step forward,\u201d the ACLU said. \u201cWe believe that this important investigation of serious infractions of Marylanders\u2019 most basic freedoms is now in good hands.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Matthew Rothschild | Maryland Governor Orders Investigation of Spying by State Troopers On July 31, Maryland Governor Martin O\u2019Malley appointed the former attorney general of the state Stephen Sachs to head up an independent investigation of the spying by state troopers. &#8220;I would like to be able to assure the public that this has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1614],"tags":[62],"class_list":{"0":"post-4234","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-surveillance-big-brother","7":"tag-spying"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}