Everybody's looking in the window

Now from Newsweek comes word of two Pentagon spying activities: TALON (Threat and Local Observation Notice) and CIFA (Counterintelligence Field Activity). TALON collects raw information about suspicious activities like antiwar meetings at Quaker meetinghouses. CIFA tracks threats and terrorist plots against the Army in the U.S. like the 10 people who gave out peanut butter and jelly sandwiches at a protest at Halliburton headquarters.

Fortunately, a Deputy Defense Secretary has realized that some TALON reports never should have been compiled. That doesn't make it right but at least there is some acknowledgment of un-American behavior.

I wonder what other agencies are spying on us. It seems a new one comes out of the woodwork every week or so.