Domestic military intelligence article...who watches the 'watchers' ?

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Pentagon Expanding Its Domestic Surveillance Activity
Fears of Post-9/11 Terrorism Spur Proposals for New Powers

By Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, November 27, 2005; Page A06

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/26/AR2005112600857.html

begs the question if the CIA/militaryPsyOps/SigInt types have adopted their old ways as in the Phoenix program in Vietnam, where any old snitch would do, along with the military's penchant for going after the left-wingers or even anti-war dissenters, you know, guys like Martin Luther King for example, who got more surveillance than if Ho Chi Minh had secretly infiltrated a New Hampshire restaurant !

""The Pentagon has pushed legislation on Capitol Hill that would create an intelligence exception to the Privacy Act, allowing the FBI and others to share information gathered about U.S. citizens with the Pentagon, CIA and other intelligence agencies, as long as the data is deemed to be related to foreign intelligence. Backers say the measure is needed to strengthen investigations into terrorism or weapons of mass destruction.""

Without a viable Democratic presence in any of these legislative efforts, along with the military's history of domestic intelligence abuse, I fear we've crossed the rubicon. Colleen Rowley and other whistleblowers couldn't even get their information 'up the chain of command' due to crowding out by neocon pet projects (with PNAC and OSP etc) and now we have another bureaucratic construct which will inevitably be used to create 'disaparacidos' in the USA.

Shame on them. The laws to protect us are already being turned against us. What was once our greatest strenght, our freedom, has now been renamed as our greatest weakness. Benjamin Franklin was right:

"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary
security, deserve neither liberty or security"

Our own military, for shame for shame.

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1. America, or at least half of it.... has become psychotic. Mission

accomplished by 19 Saudis, Egyptians and perhaps a Jordanian.

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2. And the fact that it appears to be a LIHOP makes this even more ironic

They've overclassified domestic intel for the FBI and local police so now they just HAVE to bring in the military to even further scew up any other agency's legitimate work on true security issues. The new 'Phoenix' program should be bringing in the first Democrats and Green party members anytime now.

Bush's listing of terror threats makes environmentalist and animal rights groups higher than the Islamic fundumentalists ! Which shows why Greens were targetted for flight harassments and Ted Kennedy even got yanked out of line at airports for 'special treatment'.

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3. Imagine how hard they are going to fall in 2006 and what the

repercussions for this band of shysters is going to be. I say turn 'em loose in the ME and see how long they stay breathing.