New program will boost security at military bases (FBI's eGuardian replaces TALON)

Yahoo ^ | 10/06/10 | Lolita C. Baldor

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New program will boost security at military bases
By Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press Writer
Wed Oct 6, 5:42 pm ET

WASHINGTON – Nearly a year after a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, the Pentagon is taking new steps to beef up security and surveillance programs at its bases, and will join an FBI intelligence-sharing program aimed at identifying future terror threats, U.S. officials said.

The new partnership with the FBI's eGuardian program comes two years after the Pentagon shut down a controversial anti-terror database that collected reports of suspicious activity near military installations. The now-defunct program, called TALON, was closed after revelations it had improperly stored information on peace activists.

Defense officials have moved carefully to set up the new programs, trying to balance the protection of the nation's armed forces with the privacy and civil rights of Americans.

The decision to use the FBI's program is part of a broader campaign to beef up security at military facilities and better identify terror threats among its troops, senior Defense officials said. Over the past 18 months some of those threats have been deadly, as attackers spurred on by Islamic extremism and opposition to U.S. wars abroad have targeted troops at home.

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TALON was closed after revelations it had improperly stored information on peace activists.

Was that wrong?

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“…stored information on peace activists…”

Do you mean the Bill Ayers, Jane Fonda, Angela Davis, Major Hasan, Faisal Shahzad types…and what is bad or improper about that!

If not will allow these types to promote violence, whereby the government is allowed to conduct pseudo-safe wars upon the American Citizenry. Everyone participating in peace, justice and religious groups is a terrorist, except the real terrorists; kin’da convenient don’t ya think.