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Bill Would Cut Protections for Americans Against Pentagon Spy Activities

Pentagon intelligence operatives would be allowed to collect information from U.S. citizens without revealing their status as government spies under legislation approved by the Senate Intelligence Committee and publicly released this week. The bill would end a long-standing requirement that military intelligence officers disclose their government ties when approaching an American citizen in the United States � a law designed to protect Americans from domestic intelligence activities by the Defense Department.

Bill Would Give Cover to Pentagon Spies in U.S., Los Angeles Times, October 1, 2005.