Pentagon admits errors in spying on protesters

Pentagon admits errors in spying on protesters
NBC: Official says peaceful demonstrators’ names erased from database

The Department of Defense admitted in a letter obtained by NBC News on Thursday that it had wrongly added peaceful demonstrators to a database of possible domestic terrorist threats. The letter followed an NBC report focusing on the Defense Department’s Threat and Local Observation Notice, or TALON, report.

Acting Deputy Undersecretary of Defense Roger W. Rogalski’s letter came in reply to a memo from Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., who had demanded answers about the process of identifying domestic protesters as suspicious and removing their names when they are wrongly listed.

“The recent review of the TALON Reporting System ... identified a small number of reports that did not meet the TALON reporting criteria. Those reports dealt with domestic anti-military protests or demonstrations potentially impacting DoD facilities or personnel,” Rogalski wrote on Wednesday.

“While the information was of value to military commanders, it should not have been retained in the Cornerstone database.”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11751418/

Thank you, Unka Don. :sarcasm:

They've been spying on anyone to the left of Mussolini since the 50s. They never stopped, not even when Nixon got caught doing it. FISA is window dressing for Democrats.

They sure hate every bit of power residing with the people, don't they?

:sarcasm:

very little!

and it will never happen again.

:grr:

They're protestors.

Peace protesters advocate policies that would cut defense spending...pentagon spying on them...

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Military Intelligence Groups, operating domestically, are using illegal spying methods to squelch lawful legal political dissent. Viewpoints unfavorable to the current administration's propaganda catapulters are harassed and abused. Just ask the Quakers in FL, who posted the information about the '14 Enduring Bases' on their website, which resulted in them being spied upon

If the U.S. is ultimately leaving Iraq, why is the military building 'permanent' bases?
http://www.fcnl.org/iraq/bases.htm

You know, an error, like in baseball. Hey, Spring Training has begun! Look at some steroid-juiced freaks hit a baseball 400 feet! Don't worry about domestic spying. We probably weren't spying on you. Or too many people you know. It was just an error, like booting a ground ball.

the product of "bad" or "inadequate information."

KISS MY ASS!

"While the information was of value to military commanders"? Excuse me? How, exactly? So they'd know where to shoot?

This is all part of the instituting of their police state.