[Texgreen] The Pentagon spies on citizens

[Roger Baker]

As if manipulating the intelligence coming out of the CIA were not  
enough. -- Roger



<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/16/ 
AR2007011601731_pf.html>

Protesters Found in Database
ACLU Is Questioning Entries in Defense Dept. System
By Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, January 17, 2007; A08

A Defense Department database devoted to gathering information on  
potential threats to military facilities and personnel, known as  
Talon, had 13,000 entries as of a year ago -- including 2,821 reports  
involving American citizens, according to an internal Pentagon memo  
to be released today by the American Civil Liberties Union....

The released memo, one of a series of Talon documents made public  
over the past year by the ACLU under a Freedom of Information Act  
lawsuit, said that the deleted reports did not meet a 2003 Defense  
Department requirement that they have some foreign terrorist  
connection or relate to what was believed to be "a force protection  
threat."