FBI Fires Whistleblower, ACLU Defends Whistleblower, FBI Targets ACLU ?

An FBI language specialist fired after reporting serious security breaches should be able to go ahead with her case against the government, the ACLU argued before the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on April 21. The ACLU challenged the government's "radical theory" that every aspect of Sibel Edmonds' case involved state secrets and therefore could not go forward.
Edmonds, a former Middle Eastern language specialist hired by the FBI shortly after 9/11, was fired in 2002 after repeatedly reporting serious security breaches and misconduct. Edmonds challenged her retaliatory dismissal by filing a lawsuit in federal court, but her case was dismissed last July after Attorney General John Ashcroft invoked the so-called "state secrets privilege," and retroactively classified briefings to Congress related to her case.
A long-awaited summary of the Inspector General's investigation into Edmond's termination concluded that Edmonds' whistleblower allegations were "the most significant factor" in the FBI's decision to terminate her.
"The Justice Department's own Inspector General has now concluded publicly that the FBI fired Edmonds for reporting agency misconduct," said Ann Beeson, Associate Legal Director of the ACLU. "Clearly the FBI is using secrecy not to protect national security but to avoid accountability for its own mistakes."
source: http://legalminds.lp.findlaw.com/list/news/msg00182.html
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So who's surprised at this:

Rights groups alarmed as FBI builds vast files
By Eric Lichtblau The New York Times-TUESDAY, JULY 19, 2005

WASHINGTON The FBI has collected at least 3,500 pages of internal documents in the past several years on a handful of civil rights and antiwar protest groups in what the groups allege is an attempt to stifle political opposition to the Bush administration.
source: http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/07/18/news/protest.php