The Chronicle News Blog: Pentagon Monitoring Extended to Antiwar Protests on Campuses, Documents Show
The American Civil Liberties Union today released the latest batch of Pentagon documents related to what the ACLU described as the use of counterterrorism forces to monitor American groups, including campus groups, who oppose the war in Iraq and military recruitment. The documents, which the ACLU obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, include one in which an unidentified informant for the Pentagon cites a “non-specific threat” emanating from antiwar protests by Veterans for Peace in the spring of 2005 on several college campuses, among them Auburn, Emory, Howard, and Kent State Universities; and the Universities of New Orleans, Texas at El Paso, and Texas at San Antonio.
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