The Federal Department of Homeland Security provided the Pentagon with information on anti-war protests at UC campuses last year, according to the most recent government documents released to the ACLU of Northern California.

The UC Berkeley and Santa Cruz students first learned their activities were being monitored when NBC News reported last December that a secret Pentagon anti-terrorist database contained information on several anti-war protests across the country. On March 7, the ACLU filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit with the San Francisco Bay Guardian seeking expedited processing for their request for information held by the Defense Department on two UC student anti-war groups as well as policy information about the terrorism database.

The most recent disclosure includes two previously redacted reports on student protests at UC Berkeley and Santa Cruz. Following an administrative appeal, that information was released. Both bulletins indicate that the source of the information was "a special agent of the federal protective service, U.S. Department of Homeland Security." Read more and view the documents

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