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The Cleveland office of the American Civil Liberties Union plans to hold a news conference Tuesday to draw attention to reported monitoring of two local anti-war groups, a local activist said Friday. The news conference follows an NBC revelation that the Defense Department gathered intelligence on a November 2004 meeting of the Northeast Ohio Anti-War Coalition (NOAC) in which the group discussed plans to send people to President Bush's inauguration in Washington, D.C. The NBC report also revealed the government monitored a peace march in Akron sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee in March 2005. Sarah Morton of NOAC said Friday that she was stunned and hopes other Americans will be, too. She said the ACLU plans to help her and other peace activists obtain any files the government is keeping on them."