Big Brother: No Longer Spying on You

The California National Guard has quietly disbanded a group that has been accused of spying on anti-war protestors. The two person unit, called the Information Synchronization, Knowledge Management and Intelligence Fusion program, or ISKMIFP, an orgaization so sneaky they didn't even want to give it a cool acronym (and one with more titles than members) was given broad range to sniff out possible terrorist threats. Like a Mother's Day Anti-War rally led by a Peninsula anti-war group.

At first, ISKMIFP denied keeping tabs on the anti-war rally yet refused to release any document that could absolve said thing, even going so far as to claim that the units' notes were somehow accidentally deleted from a hard drive. Ha! We totally used that in college once. When the unit's claims of "did not" didn't work, they admitted that they did do some tracking of the rally, but only by watching it on TV and that they never sent anyone to spy on the rally. So that dude with the buzz cut hair and the telescopic lens? Just checking out hippie chicks.

Legislation is now being considered that will have some sort of oversight committee to watch over them and make sure it doesn't happen.