TALON - Military Collecting Info on Antiwar Protesters

[mattclearing]

Caught this at the end of a Drudge-linked article (I know, don't lecture me, I don't care).

Not sure the extent to which the numbers cited refer to antiwar protesters, but I thought it was worth a post...

http://cqpolitics.com/cq.com/www.cq.com/public/20060131_homeland.html



TALON Reports
The Pentagon’s Counterintelligence Field Activity (CIFA) was launched in 2002 with the mission of “gathering information and conducting activities to protect DoD and the nation against espionage, other intelligence activities, sabotage, assassinations, and terrorist activities,” according to a CIFA brochure. Its TALON program has amassed files on antiwar protesters, according to a Pentagon official.

“More than 5,000 TALON reports” were “received and shared throughout the government” in the program’s first year of operation,” Carol A. Haave, deputy undersecretary of Defense for counterintelligence and security, told the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in May 2004.

“At that rate, about 12,500 Talon reports would have been filed during the approximately 2½ years the program has existed,” The Washington Post concluded Tuesday.

[FloridaPat]

1. Happened in the 60's too. Our gov't sure doesn't like the People.

[gratuitous]

2. You must genuflect before the altar of redemptive violence

If you don't believe that the way to peace is through blowing the holy bejesus out of other countries, your very own government will be spying on you, hounding your every step until you kiss their fucking flag.

Well, there is some shit I will not eat.

[mattclearing]

3. Diplomacy through superior firepower.

Why do we hate America?