what ARE credible threats?

are the quakers? are the catholic workers? are peace activists? are liberal college professors? are YOU? am I? no, i'm not a terrorist. i disagree with almost everything bushwhacked's administration has done and is proposing to do, but no, i'm NOT a terrorist OR a crebible threat. i've said it before and i'll say it again. i work, i pay my taxes. i do jury duty when called (i was called AGAIN for the seventh or eighth time but i got notification yesterday i do not have to serve, since my last service was within the past year). my car is registered and it is insured. hell i don't even call in sick to work and unlike someone else i have NOT had a vacation in over four years. are some of these groups being 'spyed' on because they are called credible threats? YOU BET THEY ARE and if you deny it you are so very blind to reality. U.S. accused of spying on those who disagree with Bush policies BY WILLIAM E. GIBSON
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
WASHINGTON - While the White House defended domestic surveillance as a safeguard against terrorism, a Florida peace activist and several Democrats in Congress accused the Bush administration on Friday of spying on Americans who disagree with President Bush's policies.
Richard Hersh, of Boca Raton, Fla., director of Truth Project Inc. of Palm Beach County, told an ad hoc panel of House Democrats that his group and others in South Florida have been infiltrated and spied upon despite having no connections to terrorists.
"Agents rummaged through the trash, snooped into e-mails, packed Web sites and listened in on phone conversations," Hersh charged. "We know that address books and activist meeting lists have disappeared."
The Truth Project gained national attention when NBC News reported last month that it was described as a "credible threat" in a database of suspicious activity compiled by the Pentagon's Talon program. The listing cited the group's gathering a year ago at a Quaker meeting house in Lake Worth, Fla., to talk about ways to counter military recruitment at high schools.
Talon is separate from the controversial domestic-surveillance program conducted by the National Security Agency. Bush has acknowledged signing orders that allow the NSA to eavesdrop without the usual court warrants, prompting an outcry from many in Congress.
Bush plans to tour the NSA on Wednesday as part of a campaign to defend his handling of the program.
"This is a critical tool that helps us save lives and prevent attacks," White House spokesman Scott McClellan said on Friday. "It is limited and targeted to al-Qaida communications, with the focus being on detection and prevention."..............