Sunday, July 30, 2006

Student protests turned up in Pentagon database ...on threats from international terrorists.

dailypennsylvanian.com - Student protests turned up in Pentagon database: "By nathan johnson | July 27, 2006

When a group of students at the University of California at Berkeley convened to protest on-campus military recruitment last year, they hoped their effort would get some attention.

But they didn't expect that attention would wind up in a terror-threat database.

The day before the protest, on April 20, 2005, an agent of the Department of Homeland Security filed a report on the planned demonstration.

Among the items included: an e-mail sent by an organizer, along with the student's e-mail address and phone number.

The agent's report was included in a Pentagon-managed database intended to compile information on threats from international terrorists." ...

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