Here’s your Defense Department’s counterterrorism experts musing on the combustability of an antiwar protest in California:
Yup, “some type of vandalism is always a possibility.”
A recent Freedom of Information Act request by the ACLU uncovered a number of such reports from the Pentagon’s Threat and Local Observation Notice (TALON) database, which is supposed to be used to monitor attack threats near military installations.
As an explanation, the chief of the counterintelligence field unit told The New York Times that “those operating the database had misinterpreted their mandate.”
