" Watchdogs Protest Pentagon's 'Mission Creep'"
Willaim Fisher, Inter Press Service News
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The Senate Intelligence Committee, meeting in closed session, last month quietly approved a request from the Department of Defence (DOD) to allow it to conduct surveillance operations within American Muslim communities. The DOD said the cooperation of these communities could help fight insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"We believe there are people in the United States who have information of value to us," said Jim Schmidli, deputy general counsel for operations at the Pentagon's Defence Intelligence Agency. "That information is within different ethnic communities in this country -- recent additions to our population from distressed areas of the world, primarily the Middle East."
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