SF Chron: Terror database tracks UC protests

[Newsjock]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/07/19/BAGT6K1K621.DTL

A federal Department of Homeland Security agent passed along information about student protests against military recruiters at UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz, landing the demonstrations on a database tracking foreign terrorism, according to government documents released Tuesday.

The documents were released by the American Civil Liberties Union, which filed a Freedom of Information Act request on behalf of student groups that protested against recruiters who visited their campuses in April 2005.

The students were angry when they turned up in the database of a Pentagon program called Threat and Local Observation Notice, or TALON, which the government started in 2003 as a way to collect data that could help stop terrorist attacks. Officials have acknowledged that the reports on protests should not have been included.

In the Santa Cruz and Berkeley reports, the source of information was listed as an agent for Homeland Security's Federal Protective Service. The reports were filed by the 902nd Military Intelligence Group, the Army's largest counterespionage unit.

[fooj]

1. What complete and utter bullshit.

:grr:

[Journeyman]

2. Well, of course. . .

When have such illegally-obtained databases not been used to stifle dissent?

It's hard to be dismayed by the rising of the sun.

[caligirl]

3. This misadministration has tried to screw both my kids over, one

is at UCSC and now must watch out for the bush spy network, and the other needs stem cell legislation passed for diabetes. I don't hate Bush, I think he is the biggest looser on earth. I hate the sheeple who voted for him, some of whom are members of my extended family.
I do get some satisfaction that Ralph Reed lost his race in of all places Georgia. That gives me some hope. Usually the wave starts in Calif. and flows east. I hope it is starting in Georgia and flows west.

[Demit]

5. I hope it flows from both, meets in the middle & smacks some sense

into the 30%.

[rodeodance]

6. yes, i hope it flows West! ---and people need to be reminded of his veto

before they go to the polls and vote Repug.

[ngant17]

4. Nixon had his enemies list

I assume that this moron has more grandiose schemes in mind. This is how dictatorships are nurtured and established.

If we lived in a robust democracy, we would know the name of the person responsible for this attempt at stifling dissent, and this agent should be out of a job with the federal gov.

Instead, he will get an automatic promotion somewhere in this corrupt regime.