[privacy] Pentagon Admits Error on 'Threat'

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via The Miami Herald.

[snip]

A South Florida anti-war group's peaceful protest of military
recruitment during last year's Fort Lauderdale Air & Sea Show was
labeled ''subversive'' and was being monitored by the Pentagon, which
kept a report on the protest in a database designed to track domestic
terrorist threats.

That report in the Defense Department's Threat and Local Observation
Notice database, or TALON, was a mistake, a Defense spokesman said
Thursday. And the circumstances that led to the surveillance of the
Broward Anti-War Coalition -- along with other groups nationwide --
have already been corrected, said Maj. Patrick Ryder, spokesman for the
office of the assistant secretary of defense.

Nonetheless, details of the report, one of several such documents on
groups around the country that were obtained by the American Civil
Liberties Union and released Thursday, provided fresh details about the
TALON program, which first received attention in late 2005.

[snip]

More:
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/15745570.htm

- ferg


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