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Pentagon Admits Error on 'Threat'

Roberto Santiago writes in The Miami Herald:

A South Florida anti-war group's peaceful protest of military recruitment during last year's Fort Lauderdale Air & Sea Show was labeled ''subversive'' and was being monitored by the Pentagon, which kept a report on the protest in a database designed to track domestic terrorist threats.

That report in the Defense Department's Threat and Local Observation Notice database, or TALON, was a mistake, a Defense spokesman said Thursday. And the circumstances that led to the surveillance of the Broward Anti-War Coalition -- along with other groups nationwide -- have already been corrected, said Maj. Patrick Ryder, spokesman for the office of the assistant secretary of defense.

Nonetheless, details of the report, one of several such documents on groups around the country that were obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union and released Thursday, provided fresh details about the TALON program, which first received attention in late 2005.

posted by Fergie @ 10/13/2006 10:10:00 AM