The Department of Defense admits in a letter to Sen. Patrick Leahy that it improperly retained the name of Quaker peace groups and other peaceful antiwar demonstrators, and says it will purge the name of 67 demonstraters from its domestic spying databases. Not to beat a dead horse, but it's important to remember who had the contract to do the domestic spying for the Pentagon which has run afoul of the law. Mitchell Wade's MZM.
And even though Wade has pleaded guilty to bribing former Congressman Duke Cunningham and is headed to jail, the threat to American civil liberties posed by a company as seemingly legally and ethically compromised as MZM doing Pentagon domestic spying isn't over. As Walter Pincus recently reported, a shell game has enabled MZM's successor to continue to get millions of dollars in US government secret contracts to spy on Americans:
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