Posted on 08/21/2007 10:24:47 AM PDT by PHANTOM21
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon said Tuesday that it will shut down an anti-terror database that has been criticized for improperly storing information on peace activists and others whose actions posed no threat.
It will be closed on Sept. 17 and information collected subsequently on potential terror or security threats to Defense Department facilities or personnel will be sent by Pentagon officials to an FBI database known as Guardian, according to Army Col. Gary Keck, a Pentagon spokesman.
Keck said the Pentagon database is being shut down because “the analytical value had declined,” but not because of public criticism of how it was used. Eventually the Pentagon hopes to create a new system — not necessarily a database — to “streamline such threat reporting,” according to a brief statement issued Tuesday.
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So they shut down this one the Media squealed about. Where did the data go?
Leftists are so stupid.
This was a shortsighted move. We may have a future need to know exactly where the filthy hippies are.
Finding stinky hippies is easy, just claim that 50K acres of old growth forest was traded to OPEC for 100 million barrels of oil so it can be harvested by them. You will be knee deep in hippies faster than you can blink.....
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