Pentagon revives Rumsfeld-era domestic spying unit

[babsbunny]

Pentagon revives Rumsfeld-era domestic spying unit

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0619/pentagon-revives-domestic-spying-unit/

By Daniel Tencer
Saturday, June 19th, 2010 -- 7:13 pm

The Pentagon's spy unit has quietly begun to rebuild a database for tracking potential terrorist threats that was shut down after it emerged that it had been collecting information on American anti-war activists.

The Defense Intelligence Agency filed notice this week that it plans to create a new section called Foreign Intelligence and Counterintelligence Operation Records, whose purpose will be to "document intelligence, counterintelligence, counterterrorism and counternarcotic operations relating to the protection of national security."

[BelgianMadCow]

1. as long as Biden doesn't start an Office of Special Plans...

for those who remember...

[peacetalksforall]

2. counternarcotic - does that mean counter to the US drug business or are we not

running one anymore - a la Iran-Contra.

[katandmoon]

3. Obama's DOJ can't prosecute Bush/Cheney crimes when Obama's pulling the same shit.

[grasswire]

4. this should be posted in the president forum too

Yes?