http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/redir.php?jid=686e7782e21cce1d&cat=187cf2a69985adcfWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon said on Wednesday an internal review launched after revelations that it had collected data on U.S. peace activists found that some information stored in a database of possible terrorist threats should not have been kept there.
Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said that "less than 2 percent" of the more than 13,000 entries in the database provided through the so-called Talon reporting system "should not have been there or should have been removed at a certain point in time."
Whitman declined to state the nature of these entries or the people they involved, noting that the contents of the database were classified.
In disclosing results of the internal review, Whitman also said the Pentagon was putting in place new safeguards and oversight intended to prevent data from being improperly stored in the database
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