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As the Des Moines Register reported yesterday, anti-war activists in Iowa City were spied on by at least two law enforcement sources in the lead-up to the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn.: a female undercover officer from the Ramsey County (Minn.) Sheriff’s Department, and a confidential FBI informant.
The Register could not confirm [...]

Crowd counting is more art than science, and media coverage of yesterday’s tea party protest in Des Moines bears that out.
The Des Moines Register reported yesterday that the crowd numbered about 1,000.  In the version of the story up today, that number has been increased to 3,000.  Radio Iowa reports the same number.
Neither story cites [...]

DES MOINES — Wednesday’s “tea party” protest at the state capitol did not actually involve much tea, but it gave a wide variety of conservative constituencies a soapbox to voice their concerns. The crowd, numbering around 700 people, brandished placards of all kinds, ranging in subjects from immigration to global warming to the Federal Reserve.

With legislators working to adjourn the 2009 session as quickly as possible, conservative groups with a long list of grievances will gather all week trying to make their voices heard.

The four Iowans arrested while attempting to perform a citizen’s arrest of Karl Rove during a visit to Des Moines in July were found guilty of trespassing today in Iowa District Court in Polk County.

Anti-torture activists will be on hand this afternoon at Drake University’s Knapp Center in Des Moines to protest U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts.

When it was announced that Karl Rove, former White House adviser and architect of President George W. Bush’s election campaigns, would headline the Republican Party of Iowa’s Victory 2008 fund-raiser this Friday, the Des Moines Catholic Workers started planning.