Antiterrorist Database Used By Defense Dept Included Intel From Anti-War Activists

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Military Data Reveal Tips on Antiwar Activities


By ERIC LICHTBLAU and MARK MAZZETTI
Published: November 21, 2006

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 — An antiterrorist database used by the Defense Department in an effort to prevent attacks against military installations included intelligence tips about antiwar planning meetings held at churches, libraries, college campuses and other locations, newly disclosed documents show.

More Politics NewsOne tip in the database in February 2005, for instance, noted that “a church service for peace” would be held in the New York City area the next month. Another entry noted that antiwar protesters would be holding “nonviolence training” sessions at unidentified churches in Brooklyn and Manhattan.

The Defense Department tightened its procedures earlier this year to ensure that only material related to actual terrorist threats — and not peaceable First Amendment activity — was included in the database.

The head of the office that runs the military database, which is known as Talon, said Monday that material on antiwar protests should not have been collected in the first place.

more at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/21/washington/21protests.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&ref=washington&adxnnlx=1164085607-0eVkroWX2uFUBZvBxxKv9Q

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1. Another entry noted DUers are everywhere.

Good thing we trust our government to always be honest and just or that might be scary.

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2. So when they listen to the terrorists' phone calls, they are listening to whom?

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3. Is it coincidence that Jeff Gannon's "news service" was called Talon News?

See http://mediamatters.org/items/200501280006

They both seem to have infiltration of media and identifying independent voices as an objective.