Today's New York Times reveals the existence of the FBI's domestic intelligence-gathering rules that were revised by the Bush administration in September 2008. The redacted "Domestic Investigations and Operation Guide" was obtained via a FOIA request. According to the Times, "the new rules have given F.B.I. agents the most power in national security matters that they have had since the post-Watergate era." More...
On Thursday, August 20, 2009, diverse groups opposing the policies of the G-20 Summit, which will be held in their City of Pittsburgh from September 24-25, gathered for a press conference at Point State Park to announce why they will be demonstrating against the G-20, and to highlight the continued fight for their First Amendment rights. Jessica Benner of the Thomas Merton Center Antiwar Committee, which is organizing a mass “Peoples’ March to the G20,” explains that “anyone who has lost a job, a home, a loved one to war, or lived without adequate healthcare, water, or food has been directly affected by policies set by the G-20.”
The Citizens Police Review Board says it wants to hear from the more than 200 people that were arrested during the G-20 summit in Pittsburgh, but also plans to hold a hearing with officials to find out why police were trained to act the way the did. [ 
An anarchist social worker raided by the feds wants his computers, manuscripts and pick axes back. He argues that authorities violated the U.S. Constitution and the rights of his mentally ill clients while searching for evidence that he broke an anti-rioting law on Twitter.