Salon's War Room
by Tim Grieve

We don't have any doubt that the United States sometimes faces threats, and indeed, there's at least one

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/10/august6.memo/

the Bush administration might have taken a little more seriously. But we wonder if a small peace gathering at a Quaker meetinghouse in Florida or an antiwar march at NYU or a rally in Hollywood or a campus protest at Southern Connecticut State University ought to be the sort of "threats" the Defense Department takes seriously.

They are, apparently.

A 400-page database obtained by NBC News

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10454316/

confirms scattered reports that the U.S. military is monitoring the activities of peaceful antiwar groups. On page after page, the report identifies meetings and rallies and protests, large and small, as "threats" or "suspicious incidents" to be watched. The Pentagon has also been monitoring Web sites for information on peaceful protests that just might morph into terrorist attacks. [...] Read the rest at http://tinyurl.com/7kqf9


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