Error gets anti-war group on terror watch
The U.S. Defense Department is apologizing for placing a South Florida anti-war group in a database designed to track domestic terrorist threats.
A spokesman for the office of the assistant secretary of defense says the department has already corrected the circumstances that led to monitoring of the Broward Anti-War Coalition, the Miami Herald reports.
Details of the surveillance of the Florida group by the Defense Department`s Threat and Local Observation Notice database, or Talon, were released by the American Civil Liberties Union on Thursday.
The Talon report obtained by the ACLU labels the group`s peaceful protest of military recruitment during last year`s Fort Lauderdale Air & Sea Show ’subversive.’
A spokesman for the coalition that organized the protest said the most outrageous thing the group did was pass out pamphlets explaining how to be a conscientious objector.
Copyright 2006 by United Press International
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