Wednesday, December 21, 2005

CIFA: The Pentagon's Spying Program

Here we go again. WAPost: "The Pentagon's newest counterterrorism agency, charged w/ protecting military facilities/ personnel wherever they are, is carrying out intelligence collection, analysis and operations w/in the US and abroad. CIFA is a 3 yr old agency whose size and budget remain secret. It has grown from an agency that coordinated policy and oversaw the counterintelligence activities of units w/in the military services & Pentagon agencies to an analytic/ operational org w/9 directorates and ever widening authority." Gulp... "A former sr Pentagon intelligence official, familiar w/CIFA, said: 'They started w/force protection from terrorists, but when you go down that road, you soon are into everything."... err... WTF?... "CIFA manages the Pentagon database that includes Talon reports, consisting of raw, unverified info picked up by the military services on suspicious activities that could involve terrorist threats. The Pentagon acknowledged last wk that the Talon database contained reports on peaceful civilian protests and demonstrations that should have been purged long ago under Def Dept regulations." Peaceful civilian protestors? I guess they mean Catholic Workers, Quakers, vegans, etc. b/c God knows that peace-loving Christians & cow/chicken huggers are very dangerous.
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