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I had another wonderful weekend. They just keep coming! Friday I was able to spend time with lameautarch. Saturday I visited netmouse for a few hours, and she was able to teach me the basics of Go. Later, I hung out with sarahmichigan, dionysus1999 and simianpower. Sunday, dionysus1999 and lameautarch joined me in seeing Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. I enjoyed it, although I don't know how much they did. :)

Of course, I stayed up too late last night, so now I'm tired again. But I wanted to catch up on the latest news. Meet the Press reran on MSNBC at 1:00 a.m., and Matt Cooper was there, and yeah.

Again, my week is booked up until Friday. In fact, Friday is the only night I currently have free. Wednesday should be fun--the poetry group at Barnes & Noble is meeting, and that's always a good time. My other plans this week will probably be equally enjoyable, if not more.

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FBI Says It Has Files on Rights Groups

The FBI has thousands of pages of records in its files relating to the monitoring of civil rights, environmental and similar advocacy groups, the Justice Department acknowledges.

The organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union and Greenpeace, are suing for the release of the documents. The organizations contend that the material will show that they have been subjected to scrutiny by FBI task forces set up to combat terrorism.

The FBI has identified 1,173 pages related to the ACLU and 2,383 pages about Greenpeace, but it needs at least until February to process the ACLU files and until June to review the Greenpeace documents, the government said in a filing in U.S. District Court in Washington.

The FBI has not said specifically what those pages contain. The ACLU's executive director, Anthony Romero, said the disclosure indicates that the FBI is monitoring organizations that are engaging in lawful conduct.

"I know for an absolute fact that we have not been involved in anything related to promoting terrorism and yet the government has collected almost 1,200 pages on our activities," Romero said. "Why is the ACLU now the subject of scrutiny from the FBI?"

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