Pentagon admits errors in spying on protesters

[ProSense]

Pentagon admits errors in spying on protesters

NBC: Official says peaceful demonstrators’ names erased from database
MSNBC and NBC News
Updated: 9:27 p.m. ET March 9, 2006

The Department of Defense admitted in a letter obtained by NBC News on Thursday that it had wrongly added peaceful demonstrators to a database of possible domestic terrorist threats. The letter followed an NBC report focusing on the Defense Department’s Threat and Local Observation Notice, or TALON, report.

Acting Deputy Undersecretary of Defense Roger W. Rogalski’s letter came in reply to a memo from Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., who had demanded answers about the process of identifying domestic protesters as suspicious and removing their names when they are wrongly listed.

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Threats directed against Defense Department
In 2003, the Defense Department directed a little-known agency, Counterintelligence Field Activity (CIFA), to establish and “maintain a domestic law enforcement database that includes information related to potential terrorist threats directed against the Department of Defense.” Then-Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz also established TALON at that time.

The original NBC News report, from December, focused on a secret 400-page Defense Department document listing more than 1,500 “suspicious incidents” across the country over a 10-month period. One such incident was a small group of activists meeting in a Quaker Meeting House in Lake Worth, Fla., to plan a protest against military recruiting at local high schools.


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[Erika]

1. W's world of spying on Americans -

If you're not for W, you're a traitor and subject to "watching". Pretty scary stuff.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. ...

[Amonester]

3. Now that they all admit of their non-respect for the Constitution...

WHO WILL HOLD THEM ALL accountable?

The DOJ? :puke:

[radio4progressives]

4. Yeah, Right..

:puke:

[Telly Savalas]

5. Your hard-earned tax dollars at work!

[DLnyc]

6. not "wrongly", but "criminally"

The Pentagon, and the Federal Government, are, I believe, prohibitted BY LAW from spying on domestic political activity. I am really sick and tired of this double-speak crap. Spying on political groups is not a "goof", it's a CRIME.

[f-bush]

7. Doesn't undo the harm, does it?

This fucking administration has no regard for our nations laws or ideals. I can't believe this country is so flippin' complacent. WAKE UP people, pretty soon it's going to be YOU that's violated.

[Dem2theMax]

8. And if you believe this -

you MUST be a repuke! AND I have some land I want to sell you that is located in Florida. AND I have a bridge I'm thinking of putting on the market.

I heard this on the TV this afternoon and I was yelling back at the screen, "ERRORS?" "ERRORS?" The only 'error' was using the word 'error' in this report. It was ON PURPOSE. On ORDERS OF *.

I am so sick of their lying, lying, lying. :puke:

[Disturbed]

9. They only admit to it because they got busted.

Even then they call it "errors". BS! They are criminally liable but will anyone charge them with these crimes?