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DOD ending TALON military database of domestic terror threats in September

From JURIST:

The US Defense Department's controversial Threat and Local Observation Notice system, or TALON database, will be discontinued on September 17 [press release] but the data it has collected will be retained in accordance with intelligence oversight requirements, Pentagon spokesman Army Col. Gary Keck said Tuesday. Keck said that TALON is being suspended because it no longer has "analytical value." Keck announced that a new reporting system has not yet been implemented and, in the interim, the Department of Defense will use the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Guardian reporting system.