Article: Hoyer May Back Justice Probe Of Surveillance by State Police

House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer said yesterday he might support a Justice Department investigation into the Maryland State Police's 14-month undercover surveillance of nonviolent activist groups.

At a wide-ranging discussion of local and national issues with Maryland reporters and editors, Hoyer (D-Md.) said he plans to discuss the state police program, which took place in 2005 and 2006, with Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) and is eager to see how vigorously the police will investigate their own activities. The surveillance targeted death penalty opponents and peace activists.

Hoyer said he was pleased to hear police Superintendent Terrence B. Sheridan say last week that the program had been ...

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