Pentagon to shut down controversial database-storing info on peaceful protesters

Pentagon to shut down controversial database
Anti-terror program criticized for storing information on peaceful protesters


WASHINGTON - The Pentagon said Tuesday that it will shut down an anti-terror database that has been criticized for improperly storing information on peace activists and others whose actions posed no threat.

It will be closed on Sept. 17 and information collected subsequently on potential terror or security threats to Defense Department facilities or personnel will be sent by Pentagon officials to an FBI database known as Guardian, according to Army Col. Gary Keck, a Pentagon spokesman.

Keck said the Pentagon database is being shut down because “the analytical value had declined,” but not because of public criticism of how it was used. Eventually the Pentagon hopes to create a new system — not necessarily a database — to “streamline such threat reporting,” according to a brief statement issued Tuesday.

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Why am I not surprised?

Only they aren't gonna tell us the new name. That way, we can't criticize the 'new' program.

it illegally against the political opposition.

that they're waiting until after the 9/15 Protest in DC?

http://answer.pephost.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=8515

The data is there. It exists. What are they "shutting down"?

Who is in charge of this project, Al Qaida Number Two?

:silly:

How many would it take to hold this entire database?

A hundred?

I know people with more ripped copies of movies than that..

was "shut down" only it wasn't. :eyes:

under the CAPPS II program. A former CIA guy Ben H. Bell IIIrd's company Global Information Group.

Congressional "oversight" means they never see what the hell is going on.

Was rushing about and didn't check, spank me :)