The Daily Background
| More evidence: Defense Department inappropriately used its resources to track pro-peace groups
by Arlen Parsa
Mmm great use of resources. Use anti-terror resources to track anti-war liberals. Cause you know, liberals are a big threat to America. NYT today:
An antiterrorist database used by the Defense Department in an effort to prevent attacks against military installations included intelligence tips about antiwar planning meetings held at churches, libraries, college campuses and other locations, newly disclosed documents show.
One tip in the database in February 2005, for instance, noted that “a church service for peace†would be held in the New York City area the next month. Another entry noted that antiwar protesters would be holding “nonviolence training†sessions at unidentified churches in Brooklyn and Manhattan.
They say they’ve stopped using the military’s resources to track liberals and pro-peace groups, but some are skeptical that the have. Of course, the FBI spied on peace groups during Vietnam, and did all sorts of similar stuff to pro-peace leaders like Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr (the FBI even wrote him a letter once, trying to convince him to kill himself).
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