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Pentagon to Close Controversial Spy Database
The Reuters news agency is reporting the Pentagon plans to end use of a controversial database that has collected information on several protests and activists groups around the country. The Talon database was intended for use in monitoring threats to U.S. military facilities. But it came under scrutiny after it was revealed it contained intelligence on events including anti-war rallies and meetings challenging the military’s policy of ”Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Internal Pentagon records show the database contained nearly three thousand reports on US citizens.
Source: Democracy Now, April 25, 2007
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What's missing here is any perspective--the no-brainer is that the Pentagon's program will continue under a different name, maybe under the auspices of a different agency, and the accumulated data will not be deleted. Get a clue, DN--It's not stating the obvious when we have a society increasingly consisting of people whose "education" consists of being taught how to pass standardized tests ("No Standardized Test Left Behind"). A society in which the teaching of history is minimal at best, and extremely skewed when it is "taught".
TLC
The Reuters news agency is reporting the Pentagon plans to end use of a controversial database that has collected information on several protests and activists groups around the country. The Talon database was intended for use in monitoring threats to U.S. military facilities. But it came under scrutiny after it was revealed it contained intelligence on events including anti-war rallies and meetings challenging the military’s policy of ”Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Internal Pentagon records show the database contained nearly three thousand reports on US citizens.
Source: Democracy Now, April 25, 2007
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What's missing here is any perspective--the no-brainer is that the Pentagon's program will continue under a different name, maybe under the auspices of a different agency, and the accumulated data will not be deleted. Get a clue, DN--It's not stating the obvious when we have a society increasingly consisting of people whose "education" consists of being taught how to pass standardized tests ("No Standardized Test Left Behind"). A society in which the teaching of history is minimal at best, and extremely skewed when it is "taught".
TLC
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