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Is The Pentagon Creating a Secret Police Force?

Mark Hosenball writes in Newsweek:

A threatened turf grab by a controversial Pentagon intelligence unit is causing concern among both privacy experts and some of the Defense Department’s own personnel.

An informal panel of senior Pentagon officials has been holding a series of unannounced private meetings during the past several weeks about how to proceed with a possible merger between the Counterintelligence Field Activity (CIFA), a post-9/11 Pentagon creation that has been accused of domestic spying, and the Defense Security Service (DSS), a well-established older agency responsible for inspecting the security arrangements of defense contractors.

DSS also maintains millions of confidential files containing the results of background investigations on defense contractors’ employees.

posted by Fergie @ 4/13/2006 06:30:00 AM