Whistleblower site Cryptome has leaked a six page document from the Department of Homeland Security dated January 6, 2011. The document includes a list of 96 websites, including a number of blogs and social media sites, which are being openly monitored by the DHS. Such surveillance is business as usual for the DHS, but it also raises significant privacy concerns, particularly around exactly what sort of data the department is storing.
A hodgepodge of sources, all over the politcal spectrum. Looks like the internet 'history' of somebody relatively apperceptive's internet cruising rather than a national security watch list. I'd hope, for America's sake, this ain't what they've bern spending billions on.
As the small print indicates, this is only a "representative" list…
If it was leaked then these are the sites they want you to know about. I am sure there are many others that they do not want you to know about.
I can guarantee they aren't just monitoring. In the case of the social networks and blogs they are looking for politically incorrect comments. Once they find one they trace the comments back to the point of origin, find out who it was that made the comment and write that person's name down in an undesirables book. In the case of places like Drudge Report, they follow the links and look at the comments at the origin of the article.
This may sound like paranoia but a country that has declared that it can murder you at at will, make you disappear, torture you and (soon) deport you from the country, all without any due process and/or redress is going to use that power to do exactly those things. If not today then at some point in the future.