DOD ‘Talon’ Database Declawed | Talking Points Memo

The Quakers can sleep easier. This morning, the Pentagon announced that it’s canceling a database created to monitor threats to Defense Department installations in the U.S. that ended up compiling lists of citizens engaged in peaceful, constitutionally-protected protest speech. For good measure, the Talon database was run by an intelligence office that doled out millions to crooked defense contractor MZM.


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