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I just plot through the FBI's 191-page internal investigation of its own spying on domestic political

groups, and what I read doesn't reassure me.

In fact, if you're engaged in non-violent civil disobedience or indirect action, your odds of

having an FBI file on you seem pretty high.

And if the case of the FBI spying on the Thomas Merton Peace and Justice Center in Pittsburgh

is any indication, the FBI will try to cover its tracks.

In 2002, a local G-man wrote a memo on the Thomas Merton Center's anti-war activity.

The agent also had taken photographs of a woman perceived to be of Middle Eastern descent

who was attending the anti-war rally.

When Senator Leahy questioned FBI director Mueller about the spying in a Senate hearing back in 2006,

Mueller provided false information.

He didn't do so intentionally, the report says, but because he relied on material prepared by the Pittsburgh

office which had engaged in an after-the-fact reconstruction to make it look better than it was.

Nice.

Also deeply troubling is the wide latitude the FBI has to identify political protesters as

potential terrorists and put them on the watch list.

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