Pentagon spying on dissidents

NBC News reported yesterday, citing a "secret 400-page Defense Department document," that the Pentagon is spying on anti-war activists as part of a wide-ranging domestic intelligence operation.

Not only does this again raise the spectre of COINTELPRO, a very worrying development in its own right, but compiling information in this matter is undoubtedly stupid as a counter-terrorism tactic, which is the excuse the Pentagon gives for the program (and just about everything else it does nowadays).