The American Civil Liberties Union has obtained internal government documents that show the FBI designated two Michigan activist groups as potentially being “involved in terrorist activities.” One of the groups is the anti-war organization Direct Action. The second group is called By Any Means Necessary–it is a national organization dedicated to defending affirmative action, integration, and other gains of the civil rights movement. ACLU staff attorney Ben Wizner said “When the FBI and local law enforcement identify affirmative action advocates as potential terrorists, every American has cause for concern.” The ACLU has been conducting an investigation into whether the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Forces has been engaged in political surveillance. As part of this investigation the ACLU has learned that the FBI has collected thousands of pages of documents related to other activist groups including Greenpeace, United for Peace and Justice, Code Pink, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee and the Muslim Public Affairs Council.