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**Kentuckians checking on FBI scrutiny
**ACLU hopes to learn who gets monitored
PADUCAH, Ky. – Raymond Payne first learned that the FBI might be interested in him when he tried to cross the border into Canada last fall for some sightseeing.
Payne, who is pastor of Mead Memorial United Methodist Church in Russell in Eastern Kentucky, said he and his wife were stopped by the Canadian border patrol and questioned for about 90 minutes.
The Canadians told Payne that he was the subject of an FBI file, he said in a telephone interview Wednesday. That bothered him, he said, because he has never been charged with a crime or been politically active.
But Payne now thinks that an Internet book order that he placed after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks – some reading material about Islam and several copies of the Quran for his congregation’s comparative study of religions – may tie into the agency’s interest.
Whole Story:
courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050520/NEWS0104/505200406
**ACLU hopes to learn who gets monitored
PADUCAH, Ky. – Raymond Payne first learned that the FBI might be interested in him when he tried to cross the border into Canada last fall for some sightseeing.
Payne, who is pastor of Mead Memorial United Methodist Church in Russell in Eastern Kentucky, said he and his wife were stopped by the Canadian border patrol and questioned for about 90 minutes.
The Canadians told Payne that he was the subject of an FBI file, he said in a telephone interview Wednesday. That bothered him, he said, because he has never been charged with a crime or been politically active.
But Payne now thinks that an Internet book order that he placed after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks – some reading material about Islam and several copies of the Quran for his congregation’s comparative study of religions – may tie into the agency’s interest.
Whole Story:
courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050520/NEWS0104/505200406
