[MilCom] Pentagon New Terrorism Stategy to Affect Hobby Mail lists?

[Ken]

Many Sunday newspapers today will have an article from "New York Times" 
newspaper writer Thom Shanker "Pentagon Forges New Strategy On Terrorsim"... 
Basically it's a classified counterterrorism strategy.  Part of the non 
classified release to the press indicates ...  "It also orders the military 
to focus on terrorist information gathering systems......."

In my opinion, hobby internet email lists & typical "on scene" activities 
may very well come under increased scrutiny (surveillance) by military 
investigators (e.g. AFOSI, NCIS, CID, etc.) as well as the military's 
communications security(COMSEC)/operational security(OPSEC) policy/training 
personnel.

Investigative Agencies websites:
Air Force OSI:  http://public.afosi.amc.af.mil/
Army CID:  http://www.cid.army.mil/
Navy NCIS:  http://www.ncis.navy.mil/

I'm sure that all of you are aware that you don't have to be a member of 
this list in order to access the history/archives of the list via just 
signing on and going to the list.   I don't want to fan the flames of 
paranoia (we've got enough of that already) but just to point out that 
programs such as the public  "Eagle Eyes" & other classified programs that 
we know nothing about may very well have an internet research/surveillance 
program component.

As usual public or private comments are welcomed, based upon your comfort 
level for public exposure.

Ken
Springfield MA Monitoring Area