More on Pentagon domestic spying. A Senate Intel committee staffer assures me the optics are worse than the reality of the language in this bill. But I'm troubled by the lack of public debate and total darkness surrounding this issue. Some of the revelations from the Able Danger controversy involved a related classified compartmentalized Pentagon data mining project that apparently identified Condoleezza Rice and Bill Perry as likely China spies. The Pentagon just doesn't seem like the appropriate agency to do this sort of domestic intelligence work esp. as Pentagon intel work by its nature falls in an oversight black hole between the Senate Intel and Armed services committees. Hoping someone who knows more comes out with more on this whole issue soon.

Posted by Laura at October 6, 2005 11:27 PM