According to Gilbert, FBI agent Al Dibrito said that Pingree's comments on the USA PATRIOT Act were "way off base," and that the League should have invited someone from the federal government to be on the panel and to respond. DiBrito then told Gilbert that she would be contacted by someone from the assistant U.S. attorney's office in Grand Rapids to give her the real story on the Patriot Act.
The local League of Women Voters and Common Cause raised their concerns in a letter sent on March 21 to FBI Director Robert Mueller.
"Free speech and the right to assemble are fundamental American values," Pingree said. "Citizens can be intimidated when an FBI agent calls and questions their activities," said Pingree. "Why should a citizen meeting on open government merit the attention of the FBI?"
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