PETA

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see eco-terrorism, veggie libel

<a href="https://people.com/style/celebrities-pose-nude-for-anti-fur-peta-campaign/">https://people.com/style/celebrities-pose-nude-for-anti-fur-peta-campaign/</a>pam anderson penep cruz? ...Coca Cola hired the “global intelligence” spy firm Stratfor to investigate People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, according to company emails released by Wikileaks. june 2009 Van BC Winter Olympics in 2010. FBI investigated ("classified"?)  PETA and gave info to Stratfor?!WExmr
PETAPeople for the Ethical Treatment of Animals operates a shelter in Virginia with a 72.8% kill rate in 2014. (Associated Press/File)]
By Matt Mackowiak - - Wednesday, May 15, 2019ANALYSIS/OPINION:
Let me confess a (popular) opinion: I love dogs. My wife and I own two rescue dogs and one foster dog. As a kid, we grew up with cats. I have a soft spot in my heart for anyone who works to oppose animal abuse.
But righteousness is not the same thing as being right.
And a high-profile organization on the left is the poster child for what’s wrong in activism today.
With headquarters in Norfolk, Virginia, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals was founded in the 1980s to focus on animal issues by demonstrating and at times performing nefarious and outrageous activities to make their statements. Unfortunately, a lot of PETA’s efforts have been misguided, ill-informed and, on certain occasions, potentially illegal.
While PETA as an organization makes it its business to attack private enterprise as evil and lacking transparency, the group has been trying to hide a few secrets itself.
Would it surprise you to learn that PETA operated a kill shelter?
Indeed, PETA killed most of the animals at its Norfolk, Virginia, shelter and headquarters in 2014, according to the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. That year, PETA euthanized 2,454 of its 3,369 cats, dogs and other animals — a 72.8% kill rate.
Conversely, state-run shelters have adoption rates that nearly double that of PETA’s facilities while facing more limited funding and lacking a massive donor and activist network to tap.
Many in the public turned to the organization’s donors and asked if they knew that the nearly $51 million they donated to PETA that year was going to fund animal killings.
As a result of PETA’s actions becoming public, Virginia enacted a bill in 2015 clarifying that the purpose of a private animal shelter is to find permanent adoptive homes for animals, in an effort to take away PETA’s status as a shelter if it kept up the barbaric practice.
Last year, the euthanasia rate at comparable private shelters in Virginia was 9.4% and the state’s overall rate was 17.3%. PETA’s euthanasia rate was an astonishing 74% in 2017, according to state data.
Would it surprise you to learn that PETA was under FBI investigation for domestic terrorism?
In May 2002, the FBI opened an investigation into PETA as a terrorist enterprise because it was suspected of supporting and providing legal funding to arsonists and the Animal Liberation Front (ALF). ALF uses protest techniques that include arson and bombings that cause maximum economic damage to businesses.
The investigation ended three years later when the FBI decided that evidence was insufficient to warrant converting the case to a full terrorist enterprise investigation. The Justice Department’s inspector general found in 2010 that there was “little or no basis” for a full investigation.
Apart from these troubling facts, PETA’s organizational strength is misleading the press and the public.
While protest and sabotage continue to be integral parts of PETA’s tactics, the group has begun co-opting the spread of false information as a way of adapting to the digital world.
Would it surprise you to learn that the media blindly accepts PETA’s claims?
In 2008, a PETA ad campaign tried to suggest a link between cow’s milk and autism with a “Got autism?” billboard.
The animal rights group on its website cites two studies by researchers at the University of Rome as reason for the purported “link,” even though the studies do not prove any connection between milk and autism.
These tactics are not used just to mislead the public; they are used to harass and pressure private businesses.
PETA’s latest crusade is against the pet supply company PetSmart, spreading false narratives about PetSmart’s grooming services. Unfortunately, the media have been all too eager to quote PETA as a credible source without any follow-up questions.
In Nashville, Tennessee, PETA pushed a story that three PetSmart employees were arrested on felony animal cruelty charges after a raid of the store. PETA supplied reporters with an outrageous and salacious quote that claimed “injured animals were left to die in the back room, hidden from the public.” This inaccurate information was published by a local Fox affiliate without confirmation of the facts. A few days later, the outlet corrected PETA’s false claims, deleted PETA’s statement entirely and added a statement from PetSmart.
Another case that was co-opted by PETA was a situation involving the death of a dog in Florida during a grooming session at a PetSmart. PETA immediately blamed the company in a blog post shared with reporters. However, following a necropsy report performed by the University of Florida, it was revealed that the dog had a collapsed trachea and 16 adult heartworms, which, paired with the stress and excitement of a visit to the groomer, were major contributing factors to the dog’s cardiac arrest.
PETA’s tactics now appear to be catching up with it.
PetSmart is suing PETA for running a covert operation and paying an operative to engage in a yearslong pattern of unlawful conduct intended to damage PetSmart and its employees.
A recent filing from PetSmart states that “defendant PETA is a militant, activist organization headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia, using its cloak as a nonprofit organization to commit criminal wrongdoing to further its fundraising activities and fund its litigation war chest to advance its two goals: ending private ownership of animals and bestowing human rights upon animals.”
PetSmart says the operative, who was hired as an employee, unlawfully captured on video numerous hours of private conversations on PETA’s behalf and under its instruction.
PETA is just one example of how the modern left operates.
The group takes a worthy cause, protecting animals from abuse, and then uses manipulation and outrageous tactics to an extreme that goes well outside decency and fairness and may be even illegal.
This case study is instructive for the future. We will see more organizations use these tactics.
? Matt Mackowiak is president of Austin, Texas, and Washington, D.C.-based Potomac Strategy Group. He’s a Republican consultant, a Bush administration and Bush-Cheney reelection campaign veteran and former press secretary to two U.S. senators.
=<a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2012/12/27/the_other_bradley_manning_jeremy_hammond" /><a href="http://rt.com/usa/news/stratfor-fbi-investigation-peta-093/">http://rt.com/usa/news/stratfor-fbi-investigation-peta-093/</a>The FBI conducted a top-secret investigation into the People for Ethical Treatment for Animals, or PETA, according to the Stratfor intelligence agency.In emails sent through Stratfor in 2009 and compromised last year by hacktivists aligned with the loose-knit Anonymous movement, Fred Burton, the vice president for intelligence at Strategic Forecasting, or Stratfor, acknowledges that the United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation has waged a clandestine probe into the animal rights group.The PrivacySOS.org website published <a href="http://privacysos.org/node/877">a </a>blog last week shining light on one of those Stratfor emails hacked by Anonymous that has since been published by the WikiLeaks whistleblower site. In it,Burton cites a classified investigation carried out by the FBI in reference to an email from Coca Cola asking for intelligence about PETA that could be put to use. see also <a href="http://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/coca-cola-hired-spy-firm-stratfor-to-investigate-peta/5791/">http://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/coca-cola-hired-spy-firm-stratfor-to-investigate-peta/5791/</a>
Coca-Cola just sent me a long list of questions regarding PETA/Animal Activism and the upcoming Olympics in Vancouver,” Stratfor’s Anya Alfano writes in an email from June 2009. “I'm not entirely clear on how much we can task the public policy group at this point--is there any guidance you can give meon that front? Coke has asked for a short teleconference with one of our analysts to discuss this issue…”According to Alfano’s email, representatives for Coca Cola were curious about any methodology and planning behind PETA-led activism and even inquires as to if anarchical “non-PETA hangers-on” from others groups, such as the Animal Liberation Front, could pose a problem.Responding to Alfano’s email, Burton writes, “The FBI has a classified investigation on PETA operatives. I'll see what I can uncover.”PETA has in the past led actions against Coca Cola for their affiliation with animal testing, and the FBI acknowledged an investigation into the group as early as 2005 when the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) released internal bureau documentation about PETA protesters obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request. Until the Stratfor emails were made public by Wikileaks, though, no news of a top-secret investigation has been unearthed."The FBI should use its resources to investigate credible threats to national security instead of spending time tracking innocent Americans who criticize government policy, or monitoring groups that have not broken the law," ACLU Associate Legal Director Ann Beeson told the Washington Post when that FOIA request was first fulfilled."But we didn't know that they actually launched counterterrorism investigations into these groups."It’s “Not exactly terrorism,” PrivacySOS acknowledges. “Nonetheless, if the Stratfor private intelligence firm is to be believed, the FBI had a ‘classified investigation’ open in 2009 on ‘PETA operatives.’”When the FBI was approached by the New York Times to comment on their investigation into PETA after the ACLU went public with its FOIA findings, bureau spokesman John Miller said, “Just being referenced in an FBI file is not tantamount to being the subject of an investigation,"In paperwork discovered by independent journalist Will Potter in 2009, the U.S. Department of Agriculture considered PETA a potential cause of “terrorist threat[s]” and warned the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service possible attacks from the group.<a href="http://rt.com/usa/news/stratfor-fbi-investigation-peta-093/">http://rt.com/usa/news/stratfor-fbi-investigation-peta-093/</a>=July 2007Coca-Cola had a history of conducting invasive and deadly animal experiments–including cutting open chimpanzees’ faces in order to conduct taste tests and force-feeding chemicals to rats to test “caramel color”–none of which is necessary or required by law.After discussions with PETA and after we learned that Coca-Cola was funding a deadly physiology test on sour taste reception in rats, Coca-Cola wrote: “I want to assure you that The Coca-Cola Company does not conduct animal tests and does not directly fund animal tests on its beverages. … We are sending letters to our partners and research organizations who may conduct safety evaluations on … ingredients insisting they use alternatives to animal testing, when such testing is both available and accepted by governments. … Recently senior management became aware that research involving rats was being conducted as part of a grant we had funded at Virginia Commonwealth University to study taste reception. We have contacted the University and have discontinued our funding.”

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coca-Cola and PepsiCo Agree to Curb Animal Tests

By BRENDA GOODMAN

Published: May 31, 2007

ATLANTA, May 30 — Under pressure from animal rights advocates, two soft drink giants, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, have agreed to stop directly financing research that uses animals to test or develop their products, except where such testing is required by law.

Researchers at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sought the assurances after discovering studies financed by the companies that used animals like rats and chimpanzees to test taste perception and, in some cases, to bolster support for promotional health claims.

PepsiCo said that it would stop directly financing animal experiments, including some it had financed through grants given to graduate students through its Gatorade Sports Science Institute.

Elaine Palmer, a spokeswoman for PepsiCo, said that while the company had never supported the idea of animal testing, “We had not been policing it, so that part is new.”

Coca-Cola and PepsiCo are the largest largest manufacturers to agree to the ban.

Coca-Cola also said that it would discontinue a grant given to a researcher at Virginia Commonwealth University who has been studying taste perception in rats, which share certain taste pathways with humans.

Representatives of Coca-Cola and the university declined to say how much financing the company was providing or to elaborate on what the ultimate application of the research might be.

A research associate at PETA, Shalin G. Gala, said, “We see these statements from Coke and Pepsi, massive global conglomerates, as the beginning of the end of all animal tests on food.”

Scientists conducting basic research in animal models have cautioned against PETA’s hard line, saying their work, which may have medical benefits, would not be possible in many cases without help from corporate sponsors.

“It’s very easy to characterize scientific research like this in a bad light,” said Dr. John A. DeSimone, a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University who had been working under the Coca-Cola grant. “To do medical research, you sometimes need an animal model.”

Not everyone agrees with Dr. DeSimone’s thinking, particularly when it involves tests on highly intelligent animals, as did a study involving a Coca-Cola scientist, financed by Nutrasweet, that cut open the faces of chimpanzees to study nerve impulses used in the perception of sweet tastes.

“I have never found chimpanzee work justifiable,” said Dr. Alan Goldberg, director of the Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing at Johns Hopkins University.

Dr. Goldberg said that over the last 30 years, advances in alternatives to animal models, many of which are usually more scientifically precise, have already reduced the number of lab animals in use by 50 percent.

“The bottom line for me is that I’d love to see animal studies disappear entirely,” Dr. Goldberg said. “In vitro models are cleaner.”

The two soft drink giants are the latest companies to respond to scrutiny by PETA, which has mounted a campaign to denounce animal testing practices in the beverage industry, an industry that, unlike cosmetics or pharmaceuticals, had largely been unpublicized in the animal testing arena.

In January, Roll International, the company that makes Pom Wonderful pomegranate juice, agreed to cease tests on animals after PETA disclosed a 2005 study financed by the company that tested the juice to see if it might relieve artificially induced erectile dysfunction in rabbits.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/31/business/31testing.html?_r=0

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Coca-Cola worried about threats at Vancouver Olympics

WikiLeaks releases emails over security firm's assessment of protest threat

The Associated Press Posted: Feb 28, 2012 5:04 AM ET Last Updated: Feb 28, 2012 10:58 AM ET

Private intelligence firm Stratfor was paid by Coca-Cola to gauge the threat of protesters at the Vancouver Olympics, provided Dow Chemical information on environmental activists, and sells what clients and subscribers consider some of the best geopolitical analysis that money can buy.

Now the Texas-based think-tank is the latest target of WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange, who says his anti-secrecy group has more than five million of Stratfor's emails and is promising to release damaging material in the coming weeks.

The first, small batch published Monday contained little that was particularly scintillating — but revealed clients that Stratfor has long safeguarded and refused to disclose. They range from local universities to megacorporations like Coca-Cola, which apparently worried about animal-rights supporters crashing and disrupting the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver.

"To what extent will U.S.-based PETA supporters travel to Canada to support activism?" a Coca-Cola manager asked a Stratfor analyst in a 2009 email.

An initial examination of the emails turned up a mix of the innocuous and the embarrassing. But Assange has accused Stratfor of serious deeds, such as funnelling money to informants through offshore tax havens, monitoring activist groups on behalf of big corporations and making investments based on its secret intelligence.

"What we have discovered is a company that is a private intelligence Enron," Assange told London's Frontline Club, referring to the Texas energy giant whose spectacular bankruptcy turned it into a byword for corporate malfeasance.

'Nothing improper,' says Stratfor

Stratfor denied there was anything improper in the way it dealt with its contacts.

"Stratfor has worked to build good sources in many countries around the world, as any publisher of global geopolitical analysis would do," the company said in a statement. "We have done so in a straightforward manner and we are committed to meeting the highest standards of professional conduct."

Headquartered on the fourth floor of a bank building in downtown Austin, Stratfor might be one of the smallest targets on which WikiLeaks has set its sights. Founded in 1996, the company was reported to have the equivalent of around 40 full-time employees in Austin in 2008 and regularly plucks interns from the nearby University of Texas campus.

According to an internal Stratfor document released by WikiLeaks, the company boasted having 292,000 paid subscribers but also acknowledged that the actual number of people reading its products is far fewer. Stratfor uses analysts to scour the internet for open-source information, which they then use to determine where the world's next crisis might strike.

But the company also pays for information. One email released by WikiLeaks described a $6,000-a-month payment made to a Middle Eastern source, and another carried bits of gossip dropped by a retired spy. In December, Stratfor founder George Friedman gave advice on handling sources to one of his analysts gathering information on the health of Venezuela President Hugo Chavez.

"If this is a source you suspect may have value, you have to take control od (sic) him. Control means financial, sexual or psychological control to the point where he would reveal his sourcing and be tasked," the email read. "This is difficult to do when you are known to be affiliated with an intelligence organization."

VP bragged about 'trusted former CIA cronies'

Stratfor vice-president of intelligence Fred Burton bragged in other emails about his "trusted former CIA cronies" and promises to "see what I can uncover" about a classified FBI investigation.

Messages left for Burton weren't immediately returned. Stratfor has speculated that some of the leaked emails may have been altered or forged, although the firm did not provide any evidence of tampering. Anonymous said in a Twitter message that the suggestion of forgery was "pathetic."

Bobby Inman, former director of the National Security Agency and former deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, called Stratfor's paid intelligence service competent and said the company has delivered "high-quality" analysis in the past.

Inman said Monday that the leaked list of clients would almost "certainly be damaging" to Stratfor's business.

"If you think who might find that information useful, it would be a competitor out there looking for clients," he said.

Some clients are already facing questions. Among the emails are reports apparently compiled for The Dow Chemical Co. on activists who have targeted the company over its links to the Bhopal gas leak disaster, which killed thousands of Indians and spawned a long-running legal battle.

Dow said in a written statement that "major companies are often required to take appropriate action to protect their people and safeguard their facilities," adding that it operated within the law.

Coca-Cola defends using firm

Coca-Cola also defended reaching out to Stratfor before the 2010 Olympics, releasing a statement Monday that read, ""We consider it prudent to monitor for protest activities at any major event we sponsor, as such activities may affect our partners, customers, consumers or employees."

How WikiLeaks got the company's emails remains unclear. Assange refused to answer questions about the matter Monday, but Stratfor said the messages appeared to be the same ones stolen by hackers in December. That breach, claimed by the internet activist group Anonymous, ravaged the company's servers and led to the disclosure of thousands of credit card numbers and other information.

Wired magazine quoted an unnamed member of Anonymous as saying that the stolen data had been transferred to WikiLeaks, which allegedly acknowledged receiving the transfer using a coded message on Twitter. Anonymous appeared to confirm that account, pointing to the cryptic message "rats for donavon," which WikiLeaks posted Dec. 30.

Several media groups, including Rolling Stone magazine and German broadcaster NDR, said they have been offered advance access to the emails and will publish stories based on the documents if appropriate.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/coca-cola-worried-about-threats-at-vancouver-olympics-1.1294564

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will p:

Coca Cola hired the “global intelligence” spy firm Stratfor to investigate People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, according to company emails <a href="http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/5282628_re-public-policy-question-for-coca-cola-.html" target="_blank" style=" padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">released by Wikileaks</a>.

In a reply email, Stratfor’s vice president for counterterrorism and corporate security said: “The FBI has a classified investigation on PETA operatives. I’ll see what I can uncover.”

The exchange is part of the 5 million Stratfor emails that Wikileaks promises to release in coming weeks. Stratfor, an intelligence firm that works closely with corporations and the government, has verified that company emails were stolen but refuses to say anything more.

In a June 2, 2009 email, Anya Alfano of Stratfor relays the intelligence request from Coca Cola (as background, Peta has protested <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/31/business/31testing.html" target="_blank" style=" padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Coca Cola for its involvement in animal testing</a>):

From: Anya Alfano [mailto:anya.alfano@stratfor.com]

Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 10:56 AM

To: Fred Burton; scott stewart

Subject: Public Policy Question for Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola just sent me a long list of questions regarding PETA/Animal

Activism and the upcoming Olympics in Vancouver–I’ve pasted the

questions below. I’m not entirely clear on how much we can task the

public policy group at this point–is there any guidance you can give me

on that front? Coke has asked for a short teleconference with one of

our analysts to discuss this issue–is that something I could ask Kathy,

Bart or Joe to do, or would that be off the table at this point? Stick,

are these questions something that you have a handle on, if we aren’t

able to get info from the policy folks?

Any thoughts or guidance would be helpful. Thanks, Anya

Questions—

– How many PETA supporters are there in Canada?

– How many of these are inclined toward activism?

– To what extent will US-based PETA supporters travel to Canada to

support activism?

– What is PETA’s methodology for planning and executing activism?

(Understanding this better would certainly help us to recognize

indicators should they appear.)

– To what extent is PETA in Canada linked to PETA in the US or

elsewhere?

– To what extent are the actions of PETA in one country controlled by

an oversight board/governing body?

– To what extent could non-PETA hangers-on (such as anarchists or ALF

supporters) get involved in any protest activity?

</blockquote>

In response, <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/acmart/catalog/author.pperl?authorid=72572" target="_blank" style=" padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Fred Burton</a>, which Random House describes as “one of the world’s foremost experts on security, terrorists, and terrorist organizations,” said the FBI has a classified file on PETA.

These emails reflect an ongoing pattern of surveillance and misinformation by the FBI, Stratfor, and corporations against animal rights and environmental groups. In fact, the <a href="http://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/justice-department-warned-fbi/3423/" target="blank" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Justice Department warned the FBI</a> against wasting resources investigating PETA and other activist groups (the FBI refused to alter its policies). Also, the <a href="http://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/peta-terrorists-usda-form/2374/" target="blank" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">USDA has classified PETA as a terrorist threat</a>.

As I have reported here previously, Stratfor is one of many private intelligence firms that have profited signficantly from post-9/11 “terrorism” hysteria. Stratfor and others, such as the <a href="http://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/inkerman-report-stickers-on-suvs-are-eco-terrorism/571/" target="_blank" style=" padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Inkerman Group</a>, are paid by corporations to identify business “threats,” including special interest groups, key activists, and legislation. It is a niche industry built upon fear: the business of risk mitigation depends upon the identification of a constant stream of threats.

Let’s step back and look at how Orwellian this has become:

-Corporations<a href="http://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/green-scare" target="_blank" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"> created the term “eco-terrorism,”</a> and manufactured it as a national security threat.

-The FBI and homeland security got on board, labeling animal rights and environmental groups the “number one domestic terrorism threat.”

-Corporations hire other corporations to investigate this “threat.”

-In turn, intelligence firms like Stratfor consult with the FBI about the bureau’s own classified files.

It’s a cycle of fear that flows between corporations, counter-terrorism firms, and the FBI. It’s self-replicating and self-fulfilling, and a reflection of the erasure of all lines separating corporations and the state.

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The FBI conducted a top-secret investigation into the People for Ethical Treatment for Animals, or PETA, according to the Stratfor intelligence agency.

In emails sent through Stratfor in 2009 and compromised last year by hacktivists aligned with the loose-knit Anonymous movement, Fred Burton, the vice president for intelligence at Strategic Forecasting, or Stratfor, acknowledges that the United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation has waged a clandestine probe into the animal rights group.

The PrivacySOS.org website published <a href="http://privacysos.org/node/877">a </a>blog last week shining light on one of those Stratfor emails hacked by Anonymous that has since been published by the WikiLeaks whistleblower site. In it, Burton cites a classified investigation carried out by the FBI in reference to an email from Coca Cola asking for intelligence about PETA that could be put to use.

“Coca-Cola just sent me a long list of questions regarding PETA/Animal Activism and the upcoming Olympics in Vancouver,” Stratfor’s Anya Alfano writes in an email from June 2009. “I'm not entirely clear on how much we can task the public policy group at this point--is there any guidance you can give me

on that front? Coke has asked for a short teleconference with one of our analysts to discuss this issue…”

According to Alfano’s email, representatives for Coca Cola were curious about any methodology and planning behind PETA-led activism and even inquires as to if anarchical “non-PETA hangers-on” from others groups, such as the Animal Liberation Front, could pose a problem.

Responding to Alfano’s email, Burton writes, “The FBI has a classified investigation on PETA operatives. I'll see what I can uncover.”

PETA has in the past led actions against Coca Cola for their affiliation with animal testing, and the FBI acknowledged an investigation into the group as early as 2005 when the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) released internal bureau documentation about PETA protesters obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request. Until the Stratfor emails were made public by Wikileaks, though, no news of a top-secret investigation has been unearthed.

"The FBI should use its resources to investigate credible threats to national security instead of spending time tracking innocent Americans who criticize government policy, or monitoring groups that have not broken the law," ACLU Associate Legal Director Ann Beeson told the Washington Post when that FOIA request was first fulfilled.

"But we didn't know that they actually launched counterterrorism investigations into these groups."

It’s “Not exactly terrorism,” PrivacySOS acknowledges. “Nonetheless, if the Stratfor private intelligence firm is to be believed, the FBI had a ‘classified investigation’ open in 2009 on ‘PETA operatives.’”

When the FBI was approached by the New York Times to comment on their investigation into PETA after the ACLU went public with its FOIA findings, bureau spokesman John Miller said, “Just being referenced in an FBI file is not tantamount to being the subject of an investigation,"

In paperwork discovered by independent journalist Will Potter in 2009, the U.S. Department of Agriculture considered PETA a potential cause of “terrorist threat[s]” and warned the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service possible attacks from the group.

<a href="http://rt.com/usa/news/stratfor-fbi-investigation-peta-093/">http://rt.com/usa/news/stratfor-fbi-investigation-peta-093/</a>