------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 17:14:55 -0500 From: "NOW-Update" <NOW-Update@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: This Week on NOW: Eyes of the Eagle NOW Friday, March 24, 2006 on PBS (Check local listings at http://www.pbs.org/now/sched.html) ======================================================== This week on NOW: * Eyes of the Eagle NOW investigates a little-known Pentagon program that's been secretly snooping on Americans with the help of local law enforcement. ======================================================== "Eyes of the Eagle" How far can the Pentagon go to flush out terrorists in our midst? NOW takes a look at a little-known Pentagon program created by Paul Wolfowitz called TALON, short for "Threat and Local Observation Notice." TALON has been keeping tabs on a wide range of innocent Americans, from student protesters to even one 79-year-old grandmother. Critics allege that much of the information generated has been unreliable -- particularly from their close collaboration with local law enforcement. "First, they were doing stupid things which should just piss people off in terms of a waste of time and energy, " William Arkin, a former military intelligence analyst and past consultant to the United States Air Force told NOW, "But second, they were violating their own rules and the law." Is the Pentagon's eye on you? ======================================================= NOW Online Starting Friday morning, the NOW web site will follow up on the TALON story with exclusive features and information, including: * A comprehensive look at TALON and other ways the government has been keeping tabs on American dissent and dissenters. * A closer look at documents shown on the broadcast, including the Paul Wolfowitz memorandum recommending stronger civil liberty protections for the program he created. * An update on the domestic spying controversy * Our NOW online poll: Should the Defense Department be keeping tabs on anti-government activists? ======================================================== New Pacifica Working Group http://www.egroups.com/group/NewPacifica 'Save Our Stations!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NewPacifica/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: NewPacifica-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/