When the Department of Homeland Security's National Operations Center wants to "improve its situational awareness and common operating picture," the action officers there "monitor" Wired.com's Danger Room and Threat Level.

That's according to a couple of DHS "Privacy Impact Assessments" spotted by *USA Today *and Newsweek's *Declassified *blog.

Other sites monitored by DHS include Wikileaks, Cryptome, Homeland Security Watch, and "Borderfire Report, an anti-immigration blog which includes postings related to internal frictions inside the Tea Party movement," as Declassified puts it.