A lot more information is coming to light recently about government activities to surpress protests surrounding the RNC this September. The Minnesota National Guard's involvement has been widely reported on. Recently, though, it has come to light that military agencies such as the Pentagon's Northern Command, and the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (the folks behind the eye in the sky) were -- literally -- at the table during the convention. Also present were representatives of the nation's major telecom companies. Of course military involvement in a domestic policing action is a major violation of US law, but then again so is warrant-less wiretapping and any number of other government programs.  It's also being speculated that the government was using the Triggerfish system (see the post from a few days ago) during the convention. Please read more here. Check out the government planning document that was leaked on wikileaks which lead to this discovery here