pentagon spying on civilians at UCSC documents on line

[caligirl]

http://pageoneq.com/news/2006/sldn_041106.html
The documents are available here.http://tinyurl.com/j6ncw
UCSC doc is page 8.



Pentagon admits to surveillance of gay groups, releases documents

by PageOneQ

The Servicemembers Legal Defense Network has released documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act from the Department of Defense, which confirm the military's surveillance of organizations working to repeal the Military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell Policy, PageOneQ has learned.

The government's monitoring of anti-war protestors, including protests against the Military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy, was first reported by Ron Brynaert of Raw Story.com in December.

"The very idea that the federal government believes freedom of speech is a threat to national security is unconscionable," Steve Ralls, Servicemembers Legal Defense Network’s Director of Communications told PageOneQ today. “The Pentagon has acknowledged that collection of the information was perhaps inappropriate,” Mr. Ralls said as he cited an earlier report by United Press International on the Pentagon’s admission.

Mr. Ralls also explained that Servicemembers Legal Defense Network fully expects the federal government to “discontinue surveillance because there was no legitimate reason to begin it in the first place."

The Department of Defense, according to the 16 pages of documents it released, monitored protests against the DADT policy at college campuses in New York City, Berkeley, and Santa Cruz. A counterintelligence agent reported on the protests against Military recruitment on campuses had "a strong potential for confrontation at this protest..." Discounting a theory that the protest was taking place in a separate location from Military recruiting, the agent wrote "tactics have included using mass text paging to inform others of the location of the recruiters."

The Department of Defense has indicated that it's search for documents relating to surveillance of groups opposed to Don't Ask, Don't tell continues.

[rodeodance]

1. who is going to tell them to stop? this goes on and on!

[Neil Lisst]

2. These bastards are crazy, and fascist

bad combo

Vegans, gays - these Bushies are really dangerous.

[sandnsea]

3. Click and read the docs

Aside from the obvious civil rights violation, we're clearly in alot of trouble if these are the people responsible for hunting down terrorist cells.

They think perhaps "outlaws" mean gays are going to break the law and commit violent acts and damage property and such.

A simple google seach would have told them Outlaws are gay law students. Good grief.