Legal Opinion
John C. Ryan v. United States Department of Justice
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 9, 1991No. 91-1467PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
Incidents of vandalism at military recruiting facilities in October 1986 were accompanied by messages linking the destruction to pacifist groups. The next month the FBI issued a memo identifying the groups “Veterans Fast for Life” and “Plowshares” as potentially responsible and instructing agents “to contact logical law enforcement departments and other sources deemed appropriate to determine any similar incidents.” A copy came to John C. Ryan, who was in charge of domestic security and terrorism investigations at the FBI’s office in Peoria, Illinois. Ryan replied…
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