Those who read my 2008 diary about USDA domestic spying will not be surprised to know that another such program has just been outed.
Gov. Ed Rendell apologized Tuesday after the disclosure that the [Pennsylvania] state Office of Homeland Security paid the institute $125,000 for weekly reports the agency used to put Marcellus shale hearings and a gay and lesbian festival on terror watch lists for law enforcement.
Gov. Rendell promises to end Pennsylvania's program, but the USDA program has never been addressed. Moreover, the Pentagon, USDA and other agencies have seeded the domestic surveillance concept, like dragon's teeth, throughout the federal government and the country.
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