No F.B.I. Intimidation Found at Conventions

By DAMIEN CAVE

Published: April 30, 2006

The Justice Department's inspector general has found no evidence to support claims that the Federal Bureau of Investigation interrogated political demonstrators before the 2004 Democratic and Republican Conventions to keep them from protesting.

The inspector general, Glenn A. Fine, concluded in a 37-page report that federal agents were pursuing 17 credible threats of violence at the conventions when they questioned dozens of protesters and, in a few cases, even subpoenaed them.