A Madison anti-war protest was one of many such gatherings investigated by the Department of Defense as the military stepped up monitoring of civilian activities, according to a classified database obtained by NBC News.
“This is just a further example of how a war abroad creates paranoia at home,” said Ashok Kumar, a member of the Student Labor Action Coalition, which, along with Stop the War, a UW student group, coordinated the April 26 rally that came under Pentagon scrutiny.
….Participants in the rally numbered only about 20, but a planned Air Force recruiting drive was abandoned as a result.