{"id":2163,"date":"2005-12-15T09:49:10","date_gmt":"2005-12-15T13:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=2163"},"modified":"2005-12-15T09:49:10","modified_gmt":"2005-12-15T13:49:10","slug":"pentagon-spying-on-americans-who-disagree-with-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2163","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Spying on Americans Who Disagree with War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Guest blogged by <b><a href=\"http:\/\/veredictum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">David Edwards<\/a><\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edwardsdavid.com\/media\/nbc\/images\/nbc_pentagon_spying_on_americans_051214a1.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Since 9\/11, the Department of Defense has been authorized to expand the collection of information inside US borders.<\/p>\n<p><i>NBC News<\/i> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/10454316\" target=\"_blank\">reporting<\/a> that the Pentagon is watching &#8220;peaceful anti-war and counter-military recruitment groups.&#8221; One example includes extensive information that was collected on a group who were meeting to discuss how to protest military recruiting at a local highschool. <\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palmbeachpost.com\/pbccentral\/content\/local_news\/epaper\/2005\/12\/15\/m1a_patriot_1215.html\" target=\"_blank\">recent article<\/a> in the <i>The Palm Beach Post<\/i> described the group. It consisted of about 20 people, including five Quakers and a 79-year old grandmother. This was only one of 1,500 &#8220;suspicious&#8221; incidents in the database.<\/p>\n<p>The <i>Christian Science Monitor<\/i> also has a good article on the Bush Administration&#8217;s current <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2005\/1215\/dailyUpdate.html\" target=\"_blank\">domestic spying and psychological operations<\/a> activities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ameratsu.com\/media\/vid\/nbc\/nbc_pentagon_spying_on_americans_051214a.wmv\">Video in Windows Media format&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ameratsu.com\/media\/vid\/nbc\/nbc_pentagon_spying_on_americans_051214a.mov\">Video in QuickTime format&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest blogged by David Edwards Since 9\/11, the Department of Defense has been authorized to expand the collection of information inside US borders. NBC News is reporting that the Pentagon is watching &#8220;peaceful anti-war and counter-military recruitment groups.&#8221; One example includes extensive information that was collected on a group who were meeting to discuss how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2163"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=2163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}