DOD agrees to hand over surveillance info
The Pentagon and Justice Department have agreed to comply with a Freedom of Information Act request from a gay rights group about its domestic surveillance.
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., reported in court papers filed Thursday, the Defense Intelligence Agency will respond by April 27 to a FOIA request filed by the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network on January 5.
SLDN filed the lawsuit after NBC News reported in December 2005 the Defense Department had collected information about war protestors and civil rights groups it deemed a threat under the "TALON". The anti-terror database, begun in May 2003, is meant to catalog raw information about suspicious incidents near military bases.
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