SNI, IT, LNT, POR, SIRO, THS Expected To Be Up After Next Earnings Releases.

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BUYINS.NET / www.squeezetrigger.com is monitoring the performance of all stocks with earnings being released Thursday, May 5th 2011 and determining how the stocks have performed After their last 12 quarterly, 6 quarterly and 6 Consecutive Days earnings reports. SCRIPPS NETWORKS INTER-CL A (NYSE:SNI), GARTNER INC (NYSE:IT), ALLIANT ENERGY CORP (NYSE:LNT), PORTLAND GENERAL ELECTRIC CO (NYSE:POR), SIRONA DENTAL SYSTEMS INC (NASDAQ:SIRO), TREEHOUSE FOODS INC (NYSE:THS) are all expected to be Up After their earnings are released Thursday. The movement of stock prices in the days and weeks leading to and following these earnings announcements may follow a predictable pattern. Most companies stock price histories show random or unpredictable movements around earnings dates. But some seem to repeat the same pattern quarter after quarter, year after year. The # of Reports in the table below shows how many previous quarterly reports comprise the indicator that predicts how a stock will act after its earnings are released. The specific technology used to make these predictions is available for a low monthly fee at http://www.squeezetrigger.com/services/strat/mh.php . The following stocks are expected to go Up After earnings are released Thursday:

Symbol Company # of Reports Quarter Release Time

SNI SCRIPPS NETWORKS INTER-CL A 6 Quarter Q1 Before

IT GARTNER INC 6 Quarter Q1 Before

LNT ALLIANT ENERGY CORP 6 Quarter Q1 Before

POR PORTLAND GENERAL ELECTRIC CO 6 Quarter Q1 Before

SIRO SIRONA DENTAL SYSTEMS INC 6 Quarter Q2 Before

THS TREEHOUSE FOODS INC 6 Quarter Q1 Before

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SCRIPPS NETWORKS INTER-CL A (NYSE:SNI) - Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc. operates as a lifestyle content and interactive services company in the United States and internationally. The company operates through two segments, Lifestyle Media and Interactive Services. The Lifestyle Media segment includes national television networks, such as Home and Garden Television, Food Network, Travel Channel, DIY Network, Great American Country, Fine Living Network, and SN Digital, which includes Web sites that are associated with the aforementioned television brands; and other Internet-based businesses serving food or shelter related categories, such as RecipeZaar.com, HGTVPro.com, and FrontDoor.com. The Interactive Services segment provides online comparison shopping service, Shopzilla, and its related online comparison shopping brands, bizrate and beso. Its product comparison shopping services help consumers find products offered for sale on the Web by online retailers. Shopzilla also operates a Web-based consumer feedback network within the bizrate brand that collects millions of consumer reviews of stores and products each year. The company is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. As of July 01, 2008, Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc. operates independently of EW Scripps Co.

GARTNER INC (NYSE:IT) - Gartner, Inc. provides independent and objective research and analysis on information technology (IT), computer hardware, software, communications, and related technology industries. Its Research segment provides insight for chief information officers (CIOs), IT professionals, technology companies, and the investment community through reports and briefings; access to analysts; and peer networking services and membership programs for CIOs and other senior executives. It offers Gartner Executive Programs, which combine the shared intelligence of the IT executive community in the world; Gartner for IT Leaders that provides eight role-based research offerings to assist end-user IT leaders with effective decision making; and Gartner for Business Leaders, which provides a series of role-based research offerings for business leaders. This segment also provides Gartner Industry Advisory Services that address technology issues and topics; AMR Supply Chain Leaders, which delivers objective, actionable insight, and practices around supply chain initiatives; AMR Enterprise Supply Chain Leaders that provides insight and best practice research services for senior supply chain executives; Burton IT1, which provides in-depth technical research, actionable insight, and technical guidance to technical architects, systems analysts, and engineers; and Gartner Invest that delivers technology research and analysis to buy-side, venture capital, and private equity investors. The companys Consulting segment consists primarily of consulting, measurement engagements, and strategic advisory services, which provide assessments of cost, performance, efficiency, and quality focused on the IT industry. Its Events segment consists of various symposia, conferences, and exhibitions focused on the IT industry. The company operates primarily in the United States, Canada, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Gartner, Inc. was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut.

ALLIANT ENERGY CORP (NYSE:LNT) - Alliant Energy Corporation operates in electric and gas utility businesses in the United States. The company, through its subsidiary, Interstate Power and Light Company, engages in the generation and distribution of electric energy; and the distribution and transportation of natural gas in Iowa and southern Minnesota. As of December 31, 2009, it supplied electric and gas service to approximately 525,334 and 233,841 retail customers. Alliant Energy Corporation also provides steam services, and various other energy-related products and services to customers in Iowa. The company, through its other subsidiary, Wisconsin Power and Light Company (WPL), involves in the generation and distribution of electric energy; and the distribution and transportation of natural gas primarily in south and central Wisconsin markets. As of December 31, 2009, WPL supplied electric and gas service to 453,573 and 177,968 retail customers. In addition, Alliant Energy Corporation has investments in environmental consulting, and engineering and renewable energy services businesses. It also engages in transportation business, which includes a short-line railway for the provision of freight services between Cedar Rapids and Iowa City in Iowa; barge terminal and hauling services on the Mississippi River; and other transfer and storage services. The company was founded in 1917 and is based in Madison, Wisconsin.

PORTLAND GENERAL ELECTRIC CO (NYSE:POR) - Portland General Electric Company operates as an integrated electric utility in Oregon. The company engages in the generation, purchase, transmission, distribution, and retail sale of electricity. Its generating portfolio consists of thermal, hydro, and wind resources. The company also sells electricity and natural gas in the wholesale market to utilities, brokers, and power marketers in the western United States and Canada. As of December 31, 2009, it served approximately 815,739 residential, commercial, and industrial customers. The company was founded in 1930 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.

SIRONA DENTAL SYSTEMS INC (NASDAQ:SIRO) - Sirona Dental Systems, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells dental equipment for dentists worldwide. The company provides a range of products in four primary areas: dental CAD/CAM systems, imaging systems, treatment centers, and instruments. Its dental CAD/CAM systems product line addresses the market for various dental restorations, such as inlays, onlays, veneers, crowns, bridges, copings, and bridge frameworks made from ceramic, metal, or composite blocks. The company, through the application of high-tech CAD/CAM techniques, also provides the ceramic reconstruction method, which is an in-office application that enables the dentist to produce restorations from ceramic material and insert them into the patient's mouth during a single appointment; and offers the inLab restoration fabrication systems and the extra-oral inEos scanners for dental laboratories. Sirona Dental Systems imaging systems product line comprises a range of digital and film-based systems for diagnostic imaging in the dental practice. The companys treatment centers product line includes a range of products from basic dentist chairs to chair-based units with integrated diagnostic, hygiene, and ergonomic functionalities, as well as specialist centers used in preventative treatment and for training purposes. Its instruments product line includes handheld and power-operated handpieces for cavity preparation, endodontics, periodontology, and prophylaxis, as well as comprises multi function tips, supply and suction hoses, and care and hygiene systems for instrument preparation. The company distributes its products to dental practices, clinics, and laboratories through an international network of distributors. Sirona Dental Systems, Inc. was founded in 1882 and is headquartered in Long Island City, New York.

TREEHOUSE FOODS INC (NYSE:THS) - TreeHouse Foods, Inc. operates as a food manufacturing company serving primarily the retail grocery and foodservice channels in the United States and Canada. Its products include non-dairy powdered coffee creamer; canned soup, salad dressings, and sauces; sugar free drink mixes and sticks, instant oatmeal and hot cereals, salsa, and Mexican sauces; jams and pie fillings under the E.D. Smith brand name; pickles and related products; infant feeding products; and other food products, including aseptic sauces, refrigerated salad dressings, and liquid non-dairy creamer. TreeHouse Foods was founded in 1862 and is based in Westchester, Illinois.

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Research and Markets Adds Report: Sports Nutrition in Portugal.

Research and Markets announced the addition of the "Sports Nutrition in Portugal" report to its offerings.

In a release, Research and Markets noted that report highlights include:

Despite the economic crisis and a decrease in unit prices, sports nutrition continued to perform positively in 2009. Different factors were behind value growth. The number of casual and amateur athletes continued to grow, thus stimulating demand and consequently value sales. New successful launches from main brands also helped to boost sales. Furthermore, products were increasingly easy to and less expensive to obtain.

The Sports Nutrition Products in Portugal report offers a comprehensive guide to the size and shape of the market at a national level. It provides the latest retail sales data 2005-2009, allowing you to identify the sectors driving growth. Forecasts to 2014 illustrate how the market is set to change.

Key Topics Covered:

-Consumer Healthcare Value Sales Affected by Adverse Economic Climate

-Faster Growth Boosted by Advertising, Innovation and Interest in Healthy Living

-Multinationals Led Consumer Healthcare

-Parapharmacies and Internet Channels Gain Some More Ground

-Modest Value Growth Expected Over the Forecast Period

-Key Trends and Developments

-Unfavourable Economic Climate Inhibits Stronger Value Growth

-Rising Obesity Rates Stimulate Sales of OTC Obesity and Slimming Products

-Ageing Population Will Boost Sales Over the Forecast Period

-Tobacco Ban in Public Areas Stimulates Sales of Nrt Smoking Cessation Aids

-Investments in Advertising and New Products Prove To Be Successful Strategies

-Market Indicators

Companies Mentioned:

-Coutinho & Alexandre Lda

-Distrifa-Solues De Saude Lda

-Laboratorio J Neves, Lda

-Laboratrio Medinfar Produtos Farmacuticos SA

-Natiris-centro Dietetico Lda

Report information:

http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/5f7dfe/sports_nutrition_i

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Data Dimensions Licenses R Systems to Provide Year 2000 Procedures and Ardes 2k

BELLEVUE, Wash., June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Data Dimensions Inc. (Nasdaq: DDIM) said it signed an agreement with R Systems Inc. to employ Data Dimensions' procedures and resell its Ardes 2k millennium product in Year 2000 consulting work.

R Systems provides Year 2000 consulting services using its VISION/2000 rapid response methodology to clients nationwide, including Year 2000 compliance support and consulting contracts with the states of Arizona, California and Washington.

"The addition of R Systems to the top-flight technology consultants licensed to use our Year 2000 procedures and resell Ardes 2k underscores the strength of our procedures and products," said Larry Martin, Data Dimensions' president and chief executive. Data Dimensions has licensed its technology procedures to 16 consulting firms, such as Deloitte & Touche, operating in 38 countries around the world.

El Dorado, California-based R Systems also provides a wide variety of professional services ranging from systems integration to technical staffing and custom software development. In addition to its offices in California, the company maintains corporate offices in Japan and India as well as an offshore development center in New Delhi.

"We selected Data Dimensions because of its extensive expertise in helping companies and government agencies solve their Year 2000 technology problems," said Rekhi Singh, president of R Systems.

Data Dimensions' Ardes 2k is a revolutionary CD-ROM and Internet product designed to give companies and government agencies end-to-end procedures and guidance to help fix their Year 2000 problems using in-house staff. Ardes 2k was released April 1.

R Systems is a business alliance partner with Oracle Corp., an independent Solomon Software developer and is a certified Microsoft Solutions Provider. Among R Systems clients are MasterCard International, the State of California, Bell Atlantic Software, Intel, Motorola and Sumitomo Electric.

Bellevue, Washington-based Data Dimensions is the world's leading provider of Year 2000 services, working as a consultant to companies such as MCI Communications and BankBoston.

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The "Mobile" Enterprise Is Here, but the Tools to Implement Are Virtually Useless, Says Webalo CEO.

Despite the Claims, Path Between Enterprise Data and the Handheld Is Littered With Complexity, Programmers, Time, Money, and Frustration. Desperate for a Simple Solution

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Analysts are proclaiming that the mobile enterprise is finally taking off, says Peter Price, but getting "my data", in "my way", on "my handheld", in "my lifetime" is a process that still makes IT and business unit managers shudder - this despite current claims by middleware vendors to the contrary. What in fact is still lacking, says the CEO of the Los Angeles, CA-based Webalo, is a simple, nearly "point-and-click" method to provide mobile workers and executives immediate access to just the data they need - from wherever it resides, on whatever mobile handheld device they happen to carry - without mounting an enterprise software development project of classical proportions.

"The bitter truth is that any company that wishes to 'mobilize the workplace' first has to mobilize squads of programmers from its internal I.T. department or favorite service bureau, and then be prepared for a protracted, costly, and - in the end - unsatisfying implementation that is obsolete before it is deployed," says Price. "Until this problem is solved, the mobilized workforce is a myth." Price will elaborate upon these remarks tomorrow at the Wireless Enterprise Symposium (WES), an industry conference - devoted to the BlackBerry wireless handheld device - that attracts technology decision-makers, IT technologists, and business software developers.

According to Price, the problem results from the profound mismatch between the conception of enterprise software systems, and the specific, in-the-moment needs of a mobile worker armed only with a BlackBerry or other handheld device. "Mobile workers don't need a sales force automation system or an ERP [enterprise resource planning] system shoehorned into the palm of their hand," says Price. "What they really need is just the data to do the next task or make the next decision they are faced with. It's all about the user, and the task at hand. It's about having it my way."

The difficulty, says Price, is making this happen. "If your goal or requirement is the absolute minimum in marginal software cost to 'mobilize' a worker," he argues, "currently your only solution is to attempt to customize a mobile 'add on' from the original software vendor, and force fit it to your needs." Price calls this "Having it their way."

By contrast, he says, if you desire to have "pixel level" control of the worker's handheld, and an application custom-tailored to his or her workflow and data needs, you today face a development effort of major proportions, as you are essentially re-conceptualizing and re-implementing an enterprise-class application for a different "display" device. "The folly, notwithstanding, of doing this in an era when specific handheld devices - each of which takes custom code - have a half-life of about six months, and Internet-time business processes become obsolete before such software is even beta tested, is that only a comparatively few corporations can justify the substantial time and expense," Price maintains.

As examples of that rare breed, he cites UPS and FedEx: "These are multi-billion-dollar enterprises whose business processes predominantly revolve around a vast, mobile workforce. Not only can they justify a software investment equal to the GNP of small nation, they can even rationalize engineering a custom handheld device - which, of course, they did. But for the vast majority of companies, what do we do? How can we get the data we need, right now, tailored to our favorite device, for a minimum investment? In other words, 'How do we get it my way?'"

One approach, which Price says works far better in theory than in practice, is to attempt to use one of several middleware "toolkits" that purport to map enterprise data to generic handheld devices. "These turn out, invariably, to require a custom software development effort anyway, in spite of the fact that the vendors offer ready-made templates, because your application is widely different from the vendor's demos," says Price. "The templates are almost never useful, so you have to pay the vendor to hack them." And when you are done, he says, you have invested dearly in a custom application, and you are still faced with the moving target problem.

Wanted: A New Approach

Price calls these "old solutions to a new-generation problem." "Today's world is all about delivering solutions tailored or 'personalized' to the user," says Price. "You've already got applications and data within your organization; let's just personalize them not only to the device, but to the user, and to the user's immediate needs from moment to moment." The needs of a stocking clerk on the floor at a supermarket carrying a Windows Mobile device, he argues, are different than those of his boss visiting the regional office carrying a BlackBerry, even though the back-end data and systems are the same. "And let's do all of this without programming, without calling in the service bureau, without hacking applications for months on end," he adds.

The right approach, maintains Price, is to take advantage of the new "software as a service" paradigm, and create a lightweight yet powerful service to dynamically manage interactions with devices, with users, and with business applications.

In Price's model, a Web-accessible service would take responsibility for optimizing the presentation of information via a "thin" client on a mobile device, depending upon the parameters of that specific device. It would also act as a proxy for the user to enable transactions to occur asynchronously, and would forge an end-to-end interface between existing enterprise applications and the user's device. "The service could then provide a browser-based environment for non-programmers to set up the linkages between a user and enterprise data through a simple, 'wizard' type Web interface," he argues.

"This is the right model to mobilize the workforce," predicts Price, "-- a modern Web service that provides speed and utter simplicity in setup, speed in execution, de minimis marginal costs, total device independence, dynamic device adaptation, personalized delivery of data, task-oriented interfaces, optimization of screen real-estate, immediacy, and relevance. And all of this could be delivered as a platform that makes it possible for the users of the data - as opposed to the I.T. departments and service bureaus - to set up the connection to their data, their way, on their device, and within hours - not months or years!

"This is the paradigm for the mobile era," he says.

About Webalo

Webalo technology transforms enterprise applications and data to make them compatible with mobile devices. This eliminates the need for traditional custom programming, reducing the deployment of mobile applications from weeks or months to, in most cases, less than a day. The resulting "anywhere, any time, on-demand" availability of enterprise data on handheld devices turns such devices into viable alternatives to desktop, laptop, and palmtop computer hardware, and lets mobile employees work more productively -- on the spot -- to solve problems, answer questions, monitor operations, close sales, and make informed decisions.

The Webalo Mobile Dashboard Service -- available both as a hosted service and as a behind-the-firewall appliance -- lets non-IT business administrators securely specify the content of mobile-accessible information, and the companion Webalo Proxy Server configures it, in seconds, to conform to the native user interface of any BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Palm, Symbian, or Java-enabled smartphone. Webalo's technology transforms the role of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) into a User Oriented Architecture, enabling Web services to communicate with users as effectively as they communicate with other system services.

Software vendors and system integrators such as Actuate, IBM, Nokia, and RIM are working with Webalo to enhance both their service oriented business applications and their mobile devices. Los Angeles based, Webalo is privately held and was founded in 2000. For further information, visit www.webalo.com.

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eSpeed Third Quarter 2006 Earnings Announcement after Close of Market on Monday, November 6, 2006.

Conference Call Scheduled For Tuesday, November 7, 2006 at 8:30 a.m. EST

NEW YORK -- eSpeed, Inc. (NASDAQ: ESPD), a leading developer of electronic marketplaces and related trading technology for the global capital markets, will announce its third quarter 2006 financial results after the close of market on Monday, November 6, 2006, and host a conference call on Tuesday, November 7, 2006 at 8:30 a.m., to discuss these results.

 WHO:        eSpeed, Inc. (NASDAQ: ESPD)  WHAT:       Third Quarter 2006 earnings conference call.  WHEN:       Tuesday, November 7, 2006 at 8:30 a.m. EST  WHERE:      The "Investor Info" section at www.espeed.com.  HOW:        Listeners must have a Real Media or Windows Media plug-in             and headphones or speakers in order to listen to the             webcast or its replay. 

About eSpeed, Inc.

eSpeed, Inc. (NASDAQ: ESPD) is a leader in developing and deploying electronic marketplaces and related trading technology that offers traders access to the most liquid, efficient and neutral financial markets in the world. eSpeed operates multiple buyer, multiple seller real-time electronic marketplaces for the global capital markets, including the world's largest government bond markets and other fixed income and foreign exchange marketplaces. eSpeed's suite of marketplace tools provides end-to-end transaction solutions for the purchase and sale of financial products over eSpeed's global private network or via the Internet. eSpeed's neutral platform, reliable network, straight-through processing and superior products make it the trusted source for electronic trading at the world's largest fixed income and foreign exchange trading firms and major exchanges. To learn more, please visit www.espeed.com.

Discussion of Forward-Looking Statements by eSpeed, Inc.

The information in the Company's press releases may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Such statements are based upon current expectations that involve risks and uncertainties. Any statements contained herein that are not statements of historical fact may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. Our actual results and the timing of certain events may differ significantly from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause or contribute to such a discrepancy include, but are not limited to, our relationship with Cantor Fitzgerald and its affiliates, the costs and expenses of developing, maintaining and protecting our intellectual property, including judgments or settlements paid or received and their related costs, the possibility of future losses and negative cash flow from operations, the effect of market conditions, including trading volume and volatility, our pricing strategy and that of our competitors, our ability to develop new products and services, to enter new markets, to secure and maintain market share, to enter into marketing and strategic alliances, to hire new personnel, to expand the use of our electronic system, to induce clients to use our marketplaces and services and to effectively manage any growth we achieve, the effects of the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and other factors that are discussed under "Risk Factors" in eSpeed's Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We believe that all forward-looking statements are based upon reasonable assumptions when made; however, we caution that it is impossible to predict actual results or outcomes or the effects of risks, uncertainties or other factors on anticipated results or outcomes and that, accordingly, you should not place undue reliance on these statements. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date when made, and we undertake no obligation to update these statements in light of subsequent events or developments. Actual results and outcomes may differ materially from anticipated results or outcomes discussed in forward-looking statements.

EBay 'has Skype in its sights'.

INTERNET auction business eBay is reportedly in talks to buy Skype, the two-year-old internet telephony phenomenon, for up to $3 billion ([pounds sterling]1.6 billion, writes Nick Goodway.

Skype, which has attracted almost 50 million people to its free voiceover-internet phone service, declined to comment on the rumours. Ebay was also not saying anything.

Skype has in the past month recruited investment bank Morgan Stanley to raise cash and attracted the attention of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, with which it has held talks.

Skype was founded by Swede Niklas Zennstrom and Dane Janus Friis, who also founded the music download system KaZaa. They still own large stakes in the company but have gained backing from venture capitalists Fisher Jurvetson, Index Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners and Mangrove Capital.

Google recently said it will launch a rival phone service.

It remains unclear why eBay would want to buy Skype.

Liberty vs. security: the knock at the door.

The following editorial appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2004:

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To the Justice Department, last month's investigation of three antiwar protesters from Kirksville, Mo., is about preventing violence during the election. But to the young men involved, it is a story of government intimidating people for speaking their minds.

The three men don't want their names published. Denise Lieberman, their American Civil Liberties Union lawyer, says they were frightened after the FBI questioned them, interviewed their parents, tracked their movements and called them before a federal grand jury in St. Louis last month.

The young men are among an estimated 40 to 50 antiwar protesters nationwide who have been interviewed by the FBI in recent months, according to The New York Times. This is a troubling pattern of harassment of antiwar protesters made possible by Attorney General John D. Ashcroft's lax rules for FBI investigations of political groups.

Here's the story of the Kirksville men, based on an account by Ms. Lieberman:

Between July 20 and 22, FBI agents showed up at the homes of their parents in St. Louis County, Illinois and Kansas asking about the sons' whereabouts. The men _ ages 20, 22 and 24 _ were planning to attend demonstrations at the Democratic and Republican conventions to protest the prominence of the two-party system. They had previously been involved in antiglobalization and antiwar activities.

Between July 22 and 24, FBI agents and Kirksville police showed up at their residences in Kirksville; one is a student at Truman State. The FBI asked three questions: Did they know of any criminally disruptive activity being planned for the political conventions, the presidential debates or the election? Would they say if they knew? And did they know it was a crime to withhold that information? The three refused to answer without a lawyer.

The men went to St. Louis around July 25, planning to meet up with other protesters for the trip to the Democratic convention in Boston. Soon they discovered they were under 24-hour surveillance; four FBI agents followed them to the ACLU office. Most chilling was the grand jury subpoena for the day of the planned protest. The subpoena said the three men were targets of the grand jury's investigation of "threats or hoaxes concerning acts of violence, bombings and/or the unlawful destruction of property." The men appeared before the grand jury and canceled their protest plans.

Ms. Lieberman said that Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew T. Drake gave her the impression that he was mainly looking for information, rather than a prosecution.

Ms. Lieberman says she saw "fear in their faces and voices."

"... Imagine being 20 and getting a knock on the door from the FBI, and not just the FBI, but the Joint Terrorism Task Force. This an abuse of the powers of the task force. ... It makes me believe that the intent was to intimidate them," she said.

U.S. Attorney Jim Martin said there was no intent to "chill" the protesters' speech, adding, "any time we get an allegation involving a bomb threat, we will take every step to ensure that threat is not carried out."

Federal scrutiny is appropriate where agents have specific information that people are planning violent or otherwise illegal activity. But FBI harassment of nonviolent protest interferes with First Amendment rights.

Two years ago, when Mr. Ashcroft expanded the FBI's power to snoop, he pledged not to repeat J. Edgar Hoover's abuses. Mr. Ashcroft hasn't kept that promise. Surveillance of antiwar protesters was ordered by an FBI intelligence bulletin last October. It asked local police to watch out for protest tactics including Internet use, fund-raising activities, videotaping of events and "peaceful techniques (that) can create a climate of disorder."

All of those activities are protected by the First Amendment. But the FBI's Office of Legal Counsel upheld the legality of the investigative techniques. The Times reported that the legal counsel concluded that "given the limited nature of such public monitoring, any possible `chilling' effect caused by the bulletins would be quite minimal and substantially outweighed by the public interest in maintaining safety and order during large-scale demonstrations."

By using valuable FBI resources to snoop on antiwar protesters, Mr. Ashcroft's Justice Department displays a troubling lack of balance and perspective that puts American freedom and security at risk.

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