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Army withholding results of Ft. Lewis spying probe

The Columbian
Published: December 2, 2010, 12:00am

SEATTLE (AP) — The Army is still refusing to release the results of its investigation into spying on anti-war activists by a civilian intelligence analyst at Joint Base Lewis-McChord.

Officials released more than 100 pages of records this week to The Associated Press in response to a Freedom of Information Act request. The documents outline the scope of the investigation, but the Army is withholding the results as well as recommendations made by an investigating officer, citing law enforcement and privacy exemptions.

Anti-war activists with a group called Olympia Port Militarization Resistance discovered in early 2009 that the administrator of their e-mail list-serve, John Towery, was actually an employee of the Force Protection division at Lewis-McChord. Towery had been attending the group’s meetings for two years.

Federal law prohibits the Army from engaging in law enforcement.

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