Script/Transcript for program: new Indymedia, Food Not Bombs, on Terror Watch List?

Talk Nation Radio Indymedia and Food Not Bombs are among the groups on a "terror watch list" described by an FBI agent who visited a University of Texas class April 6, 2006 Nick Schwellenbach, talks about his March 27, 2006 Alternet story, "Keeping Tabs on the Peaceniks." http://www.alternet.org/story/33949/ A former UT student, Schwellenbach is now a free lance writer on national security matters and a researcher at the Project on Government Oversight in Washington, D.C. (pogo.org) He writes that, �On March 8, 2006, FBI Supervisory Senior Resident Agent G. Charles Rasner, delivered a guest lecture before professor Ronald Sievert�s U.S. Law and National Security class of approximately 100 students. Accompanying his lecture was an �unclassified� PowerPoint presentation titled �Counter-Terrorism Efforts in Texas.� Schwellenbach joins us to talk about what the FBI agent told students at the University of Texas law school March 8th --that Indymedia and Food Not Bombs were on the government�s terror watch list. A spokesperson at the FBI�s San Antonio field office told Schwellenbach that the FBI �doesn�t put people on the Terror Watch List for grins.� Elizabeth Wagoner, a University of Texas law student who witnessed Rasner�s lecture, joins us to talk about what she saw: Color coded maps showing where specific groups are located in Texas. Now parents of some of the high school students that had been volunteering for the group are worried. But Wagoner is taking action. She has been in touch with the ACLU and has filed under the Freedom of Information Act to get a copy of Rasner�s Powerpoint presentation.