I like the wit at this place:
January 26th, 2007http://www.teambio.org/2007/01/we-only-spy…
And despite Pentagon officials claims that they aren’t interested in domestic groups (uh-huh), and that they aren’t monitoring them any more (yeah, right), other federal agencies like the DHS and FBI are keeping a watchful eye on these most dangerous of Americans.
Add this to the phone tapping and e-mail mining, library record checking, and postal surveillance, and by golly, we’re right there in that Orwell novel. Meanwhile, the real terrorists are living and planning in the mountains of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Yeah, they’re only spying on the terrorists…it’s just that this administration considers anyone not falling in line with their idiocy to be a terrorist, a group that now includes over 60% of all Americans.
Boy, I feel safer everyday.
And here I find asshats calling the ACLU all types of bad names. Usually Republicans going on about those pinko commie terrorist ball cradling idiots at the ACLU…those kinds of asshats…
At least 186 antiwar protests in the United States have been monitored by the Pentagon‘s domestic surveillance program, according to documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which also found that the Defense Department collected more than 2,800 reports involving Americans in a single anti-terrorism database.
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In response to the documents’ release, Pentagon officials said the material on antiwar groups should not have been collected.
“I don’t want it, we shouldn’t have had it, not interested in it,” Daniel Baur, the acting director of the Defense Department’s counterintelligence field activity unit, told the New York Times. “I don’t want to deal with it.”
Baur told the Times his agency is no longer monitoring peace groups.
Uh-huh…you collect information on over 200 protests and 3000 individuals, but it was all just a little mix-up. No worries, mate, you know us here in the Government, we’re on the up-and-up, You Can Trust Us™
