Total Information Awareness Lives

[seemslikeadream]

<!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/11/tia-lives" target="top">thinkprogress.org/2006/02/11/tia-lives</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/02/tia.jpg" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br>Congress voted to shut down the Pentagon’s controversial Total Information Awareness program in 2003 (though not before it was renamed “Terrorism Information Awareness” — sound familiar?). <br><br>During a Senate hearing last week, General Michael Hayden was asked whether TIA had simply been “moved to various intelligence agencies” after Congress tried to terminate it. As ThinkProgress noted, Hayden stonewalled:<br><br>SEN. RON WYDEN (D-OR): I and others on this panel led the effort to close it [Total Information Awareness]. We want to know if Mr. [John] Poindexter’s programs are going on somewhere else. Can anyone answer that? …<br><br>HAYDEN: Senator, I’d like to answer in closed session.<br><br>In fact, the answer is yes.<br><br>[T]oday, very quietly, the core of TIA survives with a new codename of Topsail (minus the futures market), two officials privy to the intelligence tell NEWSWEEK. … “It is truly Poindexter’s brainchild. Of all the people in the intelligence business, he has the keenest appreciation of using advanced information technology for intelligence gathering,” [says John Arquilla, an intelligence expert at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif.]. Poindexter, who lives just outside Washington in Rockville, Md., could not be reached for comment on whether he is still involved with Topsail.<br><br>The will of Congress thwarted again. Why do they even bother? <br><br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.computerbytesman.com/tia/" target="top">www.computerbytesman.com/tia/</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br>Missing Web Pages from the Information Awareness Office (IAO) Web site <br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=seemslikeadream@rigorousintuition>seemslikeadream</A> at: 2/11/06 8:52 pm<br></i>

[maggrwaggr]

Have you posted this anywhere else? <p></p><i></i>

[seemslikeadream]

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[Qutb]

Thanks for posting, Seems. Of course they didn't terminate it, good of Newsweek to pursue the story though. <p></p><i></i>