Tea Partiers, Quakers, Anti-war Rallies on Alert List

Brad Bumsted and Mike Wereschagin
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
September 19, 2010

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Taxpayer-funded bulletins listed meetings of Tea Partiers, Quakers and Pittsburgh anti-war activists as potential security threats.

A year’s worth of bulletins released Friday by the governor’s office shows the Institute of Terrorism Research and Response warned state Homeland Security officials about events as far away as the Sinai and as easy to predict as looking at a calendar.

The reports ignited controversy earlier this week when opponents of Marcellus gas drilling learned that gas companies had received the “Pennsylvania Intelligence Bulletin” listing their planned participation in public hearings as part of a warning about potential terrorist threats to public infrastructure.

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This article was posted: Sunday, September 19, 2010 at 9:06 am

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