Fainting Couch Alert!

Pentagon admits errors in spying on protesters.

The Department of Defense admitted in a letter obtained by NBC News on Thursday that it had wrongly added peaceful demonstrators to a database of possible domestic terrorist threats. The letter followed an NBC report focusing on the Defense Department’s Threat and Local Observation Notice, or TALON, report.
Oh my, oh my, Martha-Ann. I just can’t believe such a thing would happen in our fine country. Bring me a fan and a mint julip, before I succumb to a vicious case of the vapors!

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