TALON Database Report

The ACLU has released the report, No Real Threat: The Pentagon’s Secret Database on Peaceful Protest, covering the Pentagon's Threat and Local Observation Notices (TALON) database found to have recorded information about the activities of peaceful, anti-war organizations. The report reviews the documents the ACLU obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit last year. The ACLU is calling for Congress to hold oversight hearings to investigate the material obtained in the database. The press release quotes Caroline Fredrickson, Director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office; "Americans must once again be confident we can exercise our constitutionally protected right to protest without becoming the subject of a secret government file." Read the story in today's Washington Post.
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