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kerrygoddess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 10:58 PM
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The Pentagon is Spying on Americans
The Pentagon is Spying on Americans
December 13th, 2005

NBC news has uncovered a secret 400 page Defense Department document that shows that the Pentagon is spying on Americans.

A year ago, at a Quaker Meeting House in Lake Worth, Fla., a small group of activists met to plan a protest of military recruiting at local high schools. What they didn’t know was that their meeting had come to the attention of the U.S. military.

The secret document “lists the Lake Worth meeting as a “threat” and one of more than 1,500 “suspicious incidents” across the country over a recent 10-month period.”

NBC reports that “the Defense Department document is the first inside look at how the U.S. military has stepped up intelligence collection inside this country since 9/11, which now includes the monitoring of peaceful anti-war and counter-military recruitment groups.”

“I think Americans should be concerned that the military, in fact, has reached too far,” says NBC News military analyst Bill Arkin.

MORE - http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=1390
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DELUSIONAL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 11:06 PM
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1. Nixon re-run
early feminists learned that nearly all of their meetings were infiltrated by spies.

Also other groups were infiltrated by spies.

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acmavm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 11:07 PM
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2. This is no surprise. That's what we need to wake to and expect from
these thugs. Look at who's running the Pentagon. They can't afford demonstrations, they can't afford protests, they can't afford to lose power because they will, and never doubt this for a minute, they will deserve to be sent to a prison somewhere for crimes we haven't even begun to suspect as yet.
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bluestateguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 11:13 PM
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3. Check out the Church Committee reports
It's a lot of reading, but fascinating stuff. The extent to which the federal government went, as early as the mid-1950's, to stamp out dissenters is really frightening.

http://www.icdc.com/~paulwolf/cointelpro/cointel.htm
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-14-05 12:20 AM
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4. Michael Moore documented this in 9/11 film. Group of folks who were
"infiltrated" when all they were was a political discussion group.
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