New Mexico ACLU wants apology to employee investigated on 'sedition':
"New Mexico ACLU wants apology to employee investigated on 'sedition'
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
February 1, 2006
ALBUQUERQUE (AP) - The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico wants the government to apologize to a nurse for seizing her computer and investigating her for 'sedition' after she criticized the Bush administration.
The ACLU said Wednesday the Department of Veterans Affairs found no evidence Laura Berg used her office computer to write the critical letter.
VA human resources chief Mel Hooker said in a Nov. 9 letter that his agency was obligated to investigate 'any act which potentially represents sedition,' the ACLU said.
A VA spokesman in Washington could not say Wednesday whether the agency had received the ACLU's request.
It seeks an apology from Hooker 'to remedy the unconstitutional chilling effect on the speech of VA employees that has resulted from these intimidating tactics.'"
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