Exclusive: Read the Internal Documents Exposing the Former Secret Service Agents Who Went Through Greenpeace's Trash
| Fri Apr. 11, 2008 1:10 AM PDT
A Mother Jones exclusive investigation has revealed that a security firm run by cops and former Secret Service agents spied on Greenpeace, Fenton Communications, the Center for Food Safety, and other progressive groups. The most interesting company communiques you weren't supposed to see? Check out the glow-in-the-dark Taco Bell emails and the handwritten notes about which green groups to dumpster-dive in D.C. We've made them public for the first time; they're available on the site here. You'll have to read James Ridgeway's story itself to find out about the Mary Kay cosmetics, Obama, and Scientology angles, though.
Yes, it's weird. Wait'll you get to the Greenpeace undercover operatives part.
Continues Below
Continued From Above
BBI also conducted background checks for the Carlyle Group, the Washington-based investment firm; provided "protective services" for the National Rifle Association; handled "crisis management" for the Gallo wine company; engaged in "information collection" for Wal-Mart. It conducted background checks for Patricia Duff, a Democratic Party fundraiser then involved in an acrimonious child custody battle with billionaire Ronald Perelman. And for Mary Kay, BBI mounted "surveillance" and vetted Gayle Gaston, a top executive at the cosmetics company (and mother of actress Robin Wright Penn), retaining an expert to conduct a psychological assessment of her. Also listed as clients in BBI records? Halliburton and Blackwater.
Comments
Secret Service - Awaiting Inprisionment for Illegal Violations
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed Apr. 8, 2009 11:07 AM PDT.
Agents awaiting inprisionment sit and do that at a location in Atlanta, GA
(718 Penn Ave, 30308)
Preforming Illegal Actions:
Invasion Of Privacy
Threats to Kill Others
Threat to steal property
Charges are pending until they wish to move forward and not sit still on an investigation that has become a disadvantage for them and an advantage to someone catching them in the act doing illeagal operations.
