Senator: National Guard Involved in More Questionable Surveillance

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - The California National Guard, already under investigation for allegedly spying on a Mother's Day peace rally, engaged in other surveillance activities involving citizens, a state senator said Thursday, citing a confidential Army report.

Democratic Sen. Joe Dunn accused the Guard's acting adjutant general of deliberately mischaracterizing the report when the general claimed last week that it cleared a Guard intelligence unit that was accused of spying on U.S. citizens.

Dunn, who reviewed the report last week, said it refers to additional protests and demonstrations, and "labeled as questionable" Guard involvement surrounding them.

Dunn is leading an investigation into whether the nation's largest Guard force resorted to the same type of civilian monitoring that characterized Vietnam War-era protests. During the 1960s and 1970s, the military collected information on more than 100,000 Americans.


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