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Report Reveals Defense Department's Secret Database on Domestic Surveillance

A secret 400-page Defense Department document obtained by NBC News lists a a Florida meeting of a small group of activists to plan a protest of military recruiting at local high schools as a �threat� and one of more than 1,500 �suspicious incidents� across the country over a recent 10-month period. The Defense Department document is the first inside look at how the U.S. military has stepped up intelligence collection inside this country since 9/11, which now includes the monitoring of peaceful anti-war and counter-military recruitment groups.

Is the Pentagon spying on Americans?, NBC News, December 15, 2005.