Screaming Penguin - Source Does Matter

Good article by Hannibal at ars:
CIFA: The Pentagon's very own domestic surveillance program

It's bad enough that No Such Agency is wiretapping US citizens without a warrant, and that the FBI is keeping tabs on domestic political groups in the name of terrorism. Now Newsweek reports that the Pentagon is also in on the domestic surveillance game, monitoring and compiling information on all kinds of domestic anti-war and anti-Halliburton protests.

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I'm reminded of the old story about the drunk who was looking for his lost keys under the street lamp. When a passerby asked him why he was looking only under the street lamp, he replied, "because that's where the light is." This cast-a-wide-net stuff is easy—easy for the government to implement, and easy for bad guys to see coming a mile away and avoid like the plague. Meanwhile, out there in the dark, lurking in hard-to-reach places where only targeted intelligence can find them, are people who are capable, smart, and quite serious about hurting America.