If this administration wants to stop being compared to Nazis they might want to stop doing crap like this.

A threatened turf grab by a controversial Pentagon intelligence unit is causing concern among both privacy experts and some of the Defense Department’s own personnel.

An informal panel of senior Pentagon officials has been holding a series of unannounced private meetings during the past several weeks about how to proceed with a possible merger between the Counterintelligence Field Activity (CIFA), a post-9/11 Pentagon creation that has been accused of domestic spying, and the Defense Security Service (DSS), a well-established older agency responsible for inspecting the security arrangements of defense contractors. DSS also maintains millions of confidential files containing the results of background investigations on defense contractors’ employees.

An initial round of meetings about the merger, however, failed to come up with a plan. In the meantime, CIFA, a mysterious and secretive unit created in 2002 and charged with making Defense counterintelligence efforts more effective, became the subject of two public controversies.

The first erupted late in 2005 when documents surfaced indicating that CIFA (whose mission, according to its own officials, is supposed to be limited to analysis of counterintelligence data produced by other agencies) was discovered to have put together a database that included reports on anti-administration demonstrators, including peace activists protesting alleged “war profiteering.”

Okay as I strain not to make the played out old Nazi or Nixon inference I am going to have to go with the next most obvious comparison, Stalin. If this does not smack of the Soviet Secret Police then I can't imagine what would.

The fact that this stuff keeps happening even after the adminstration finds itself losing credibility with the American people makes it just that much more frightening. This government is not even pretending to care how this might look to our citizens. They move with impunity because essentially there is no one to stop them.

If you ever doubted how vital it is to get Democrats in control of the House or the Senate, or both, then this should remove any lingering doubt you might still have. We need oversight as soon as possible, because these pricks sure as hell are not going to stop on their own!