The ACLU of Northern California said on Tuesday that documents obtained in its lawsuit over alleged government spying at two California universities indicated that a Pentagon database at the heart of the dispute got some of its material from the Department of Homeland Security. According to Pentagon documents cited in an ACLU news release, “a special agent” of the department informed the Pentagon of planned antiwar protests against military recruiters at the University of California’s Berkeley and Santa Cruz campuses in order to alert military officials “to potential terrorist activity or apprise them of other force protection issues.” Word of the Pentagon scrutiny of campus “threats” was disclosed last winter by NBC News (The Chronicle, January 19). The ACLU subsequently sued to learn more about the alleged campus surveillance (The Chronicle, March 8).