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Last week Democrats on the Senate intelligence committee pushed for an inquiry into CIFA’s activities and who it’s watching. “This is a significant Pandora’s box [Pentagon officials] don’t want opened,” says Arkin. “What we’re looking at is hints of what they’re doing.” As far as the Pentagon is concerned, that means we’ve already seen too much.

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By Michael Isikoff
Republished from Newsweek National News - Jan. 30, 2006 issue
The Pentagon has its own domestic spying program. Even its leaders say the outfit may have gone too far.

The demonstration seemed harmless enough. Late on a June afternoon in 2004, a motley group of about 10 peace activists showed up outside the Houston headquarters of Halliburton, the giant military contractor once headed by Vice President Dick Cheney. They were there to protest the corporation’s supposed “war profiteering.” The demonstrators wore papier-mache masks and handed out free peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches to Halliburton employees as they left work. The idea, according to organizer Scott Parkin, was to call attention to allegations that the company was overcharging on a food contract for troops in Iraq. “It was tongue-in-street political theater,” Parkin says.

But that’s not how the Pentagon saw it. To U.S. Army analysts at the top-secret Counterintelligence Field Activity (CIFA), the peanut-butter protest was regarded as a potential threat to national security. Created three years ago by the Defense Department, CIFA’s role is “force protection“—tracking threats and terrorist plots against military installations and personnel inside the United States. In May 2003, Paul Wolfowitz, then deputy Defense secretary, authorized a fact-gathering operation code-named TALON—short for Threat and Local Observation Notice—that would collect “raw information” about “suspicious incidents.” The data would be fed to CIFA to help the Pentagon’s “terrorism threat warning process,” according…

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this story is important because all this NSA noise has effectively taken attention away from the CIFA issue, which i had ran a few pieces about. see related items above.

ShiftShapers @ 01/23/06 11:58:09

these guys are spying on innocent civilians, much like the NSA. – peace groups, ect. – wasting resources and money given to them by the american people to protect them.

therefor it would be a good idea to learn as much as possible about the way these people operate, because if they’re going after Quakers and grandmothers, they’ll go after us. chances are the already are. they’ve infiltrated every major activist or peace group in the nation, be they non-violent peaceful demonstrators or hardcore direct action anarchists.

we need to study this shit and fight back. counterintelligence.

ShiftShapers @ 01/23/06 12:02:34
ShiftShapers @ 01/26/06 22:44:12
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