[Infowarrior] - DOD's new protection policy guidance

[Richard Forno]

Note para C show below -- perhaps in response to the problems they ran  
into post-9/11 and its illegal/unwarranted TALON/CIFA surveillance  
operations of US citizens acting lawfully.  Not sure how well such  
language will protect civil libertiies in today's "everything MIGHT be  
terror-related" world, but FWIW  it's nice to know it's specifically  
mentioned here.

-rf



http://cryptome.org/dtm-08-007.pdf


DoD Force Protection Threat Information

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2.  REPORTING SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY.  The DoD Components shall:

  a.  Conduct suspicious activity reporting in accordance with the  
procedures in Deputy
Secretary of Defense Memorandum Reference (c).  These procedures shall  
remain in effect until
the Department of Defense approves and implements a permanent force  
protection threat
reporting system.

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  c.  NOT report information related to a U.S. person’s ethnicity,  
race, religion, or lawful
exercise of rights guaranteed by the Constitution or Federal law  
unless reasonable grounds exist
that show a direct relationship of such information to a specific  
criminal act or behavior that may
pose a threat to DoD personnel, facilities, and forces in transit.