Note that the Counterintelligence

Field Activity, or CIFA, with its Talon Reports, is different from earlier reports on the National Security Agency (which is

also a Defense Department agency, by the way). And it is different from the FBI spying on PETA and others. Or the CIA. Or your city,

county and state police. A vast network looking desperately for dots to connect. Are you a dot?

How much spying are we doing

domestically? That’s a secret. What’s it cost? That’s a secret. How many mistakes are made? That’s a secret.

Eisenhower warned

us about the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex. Raygun revved up military spending ostensibly to bankrupt the Soviets (a model

bin Laden is well-aware of). With the winding down of the Cold War, what was a militarist-money-maker to do? Thank god we have an endless

war on a shadowy enemy who can never surrender.

I’m not saying that Our Savior is destroying our village to save it just because

it makes lots of money for his friends. No, I’m convinced Duhbya is mentally ill with Post Traumatic Shock Syndrome and guilt for 9/11

(perhaps coupled with prolonged oxygen deprivation after that pretzel choking incident). Perhaps Rumsfeld and Cheney are just as

deranged. These guys need help, but our healing begins with their departure. mjh

Defense Facilities Pass Along Reports of

Suspicious Activity
Raw Information’ From Military, Civilians Is Given to Pentagon
By Walter Pincus, Washington Post Staff

Writer

Day after day, reports of suspicious activity filed from military bases and other defense installations throughout the

United States flow into the Counterintelligence Field Activity, or CIFA, a three-year-old Pentagon agency whose size and budget

remain classified.

The Talon [which stands for “threat and local observation notice”] reports, as they are called, are

based on information from civilians and military personnel who stumble across people or information they think might be part of a

terrorist plot or threat against defense facilities at home or abroad. …

Talon reports grew out of a program called

Eagle Eyes, an anti-terrorist program established by the Air Force Office of Special Investigations that “enlists the eyes and ears of

Air Force members and citizens in the war on terror,” according to the program’s Web site. …

A former senior CIA official with

wide counterintelligence experience, who is familiar with CIFA’s growth, said the agency’s mandate is “ambiguous, but the Defense

Department is using its assets in its broadest terms.” He added that efforts such as Talon “could be a well-intentioned effort and it

could develop important information.” But, he said that in his view, “the Pentagon has chosen to err on the side of over-collection” of

information.

His concern, he said, was who does the intelligence “go to, and what do they do with it.”

Infoshop News – 1-800-CALL-SPY: Military intelligence database

short on threats, long on stupid Contributed by: arch_stanton

[T]he database, which contains reports such as those called in

to the DOD’s 1-800-CALL-SPY hotline, contains almost 50 anti-war meetings or protests, such as an anti-war meeting held by Quakers last

year. …

In the program’s first year, the agency received more than 5,000 TALON reports. The database obtained

by NBC News is generated by Counterintelligence Field Activity.

I’m a Soldier, Not a Spy by Grant Doty, a lieutenant colonel in

the Army

Yes, I took an oath to defend the United States against all enemies “foreign and domestic,” but the implication of

domestic intelligence-gathering by the military, even by a limited number of soldiers, should be sufficiently disturbing for American

citizens in and out of uniform that we think long and hard about crossing the line, even a little.

class="mine">Remember right after 9/11, when AssKraft came out in favor of folks like UPS, USPS, & FedEx delivery people, plus meter

readers, et. al., keeping their eyes open and letting the government know of anything suspicious. Even in the moment of our deepest shock

most people recoiled against that idea. AssKraft is gone (awaiting a Supreme Court nomination), but the ideas live on.

Seeing

Wolfowitz’s name throughout this report did nothing to reassure me. mjh