Fw: [ cacklinggrackle] CA national guard does domestic spying

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" Patrick Crumhorn " <patrik

" Cackling Grackle " <cacklinggrackle >

Tuesday, June 28, 2005 8:13 AM

[cacklinggrackle] CA national guard does domestic spying

 

 

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> [Grackle note: Just a friendly constitutional reminder that, as the story

> shows, the state National Guards are *not* the " well-regulated militia "

> referred to on the 4th amendment. The function of the militia (all US

> citizens of legal age) is to resist and protect *against* the abuses and

> actions cited in the article.]

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> " Three decades after aggressive military spying on Americans created a

> national furor, California's National Guard has quietly set up a special

> intelligence unit that has been given ''broad authority'' to monitor,

> analyze and distribute information on potential terrorist threats, the

> Mercury News has learned.

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> " Known as the Information Synchronization, Knowledge Management and

> Intelligence Fusion program, the project is part of an expanding

> nationwide effort to better integrate military intelligence into global

> anti-terrorism initiatives.

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> " Although Guard officials said the new unit would not collect information

> on American citizens, top National Guard officials have already been

> involved in tracking at least one recent Mother's Day anti-war rally

> organized by families of slain American soldiers, according to e-mails

> obtained by the Mercury News. "

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> Full story at:

> http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/11990000.htm

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