Who Gets to Spy on You?

We're all familiar with FISA now, (the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act). But how many of you knew about TALON and CIFA? CIFA is the Counterintelligence Field Activity crew created by the DOD to track threats against military installations & personal in the US. TALON (Threat and Local Observation Notice) is a DOD authorized operation that collects info about "suspicious incidents" and provides it to CIFA.

So, now that we have our initials straight, who is spying who and where? Well Newsweek's January 30th issue has an interesting story to tell about that. Have you been in a peaceful march against the war? Welcome to CIFA & TALON record books. Did you protest against Cheney's beloved Halliburton? Welcome aboard the CIFA record train.

Newsweek notes that TALON's targets included "nearly four dozen antiwar meetings or protests, including one at a Quaker meetinghouse in Lake Worth, Fla., and a Students Against War demonstration at a military recruiting fair at the University of California, Santa Cruz."

Well as history shows us, if there's one group that you have to watch closely because of their violent tendancies and terrorists ties, it's the Quakers!