More Bush/Cheney spying on American citizens - the Talon database?

From Huffington Post:

"(Note Wolfowitz was involved in this.)

The Talon database -- and several affiliated programs -- has been described by officials as a sort of neighborhood watch for the military, an important tool in trying to detect and prevent terrorist attacks against the military.

Under the programs, civilians and military personnel at defense installations are encouraged to file reports if they believe they have come across people or information that could be part of a terrorist plot or threat, either at home or abroad. The Talon reports are fed into a database managed by the Counterintelligence Field Activity, or CIFA, a three-year-old Pentagon agency whose budget and size are classified.

The Talon reports -- the number is classified, officials said -- can consist of "raw information" that "may or may not be related to an actual threat, and its very nature may be fragmented and incomplete," according to a 2003 memo signed by then-Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz.

There have been no congressional hearings on the Defense Department's growing involvement in domestic intelligence collection, but Rep. Jane Harman (Calif.), the ranking Democrat on the intelligence committee, began raising questions about CIFA's programs after recent articles in The Washington Post."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/14/AR2005121402528.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/60s-flashback-is-the-go_b_12280.html

watch"?

Who's funding this "sort of neighborhood watch"?

The taxpayers?

What exactly defines the term "terrorism" to this, "sort of neighborhood watch"?

Would it, could it possibly be anyone who opposes the Bush Administration policies?

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