MIAMI -A leading US civil rights group on Wednesday filed an official request for information on Pentagon surveillance of peace activists across the country, including Florida members of a nationwide religious group.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said in a statement that it has filed several Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests seeking to uncover which peace group is being spied on by the Pentagon and why.
“We already know through news reports that the Pentagon has collected information in a secret database on peace groups and anti-war protesters,” the statement read.
The filing is on behalf of several national groups and seven Florida-based peace activist groups, including Florida members of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a Quaker religious-based peace group.
“How can we believe that the National Security Agency is intercepting only Al Qaeda phone calls when we have evidence that the Pentagon is keeping tabs on Quakers in Fort Lauderdale (Florida)?” asked ACLU attorney Ben Wizner.
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