by dugoboy » Fri Jun 16, 2006 8:53 pm
link: <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/000924.php" target="top"><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE START--><span style="text-decoration:underline">TIA Lives On - Minus Abuse Protections</span><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE END--></a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br>Your tax dollars at work: Congress attempted to kill the ill-conceived Terrorist Information Awareness program in 2003. <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>But instead, the Rasputin-like program</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> -- designed to somehow find terrorists from a sky-high pile of credit card bills, car rental receipts and travel records -- <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>came back, bigger and stronger and arguably worse than ever</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->, National Journal's Shane Harris reports today (article not available online -- yet, anyway).<br><br>How could a program designed to monitor the minute data of millions of innocent Americans be any worse? <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>By stripping its privacy protections and abuse safeguards, and opening the database up to browsers all over the national security community.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> Have at it, boys -- there's only one Consitution, so you'll have to share the scissors:<br><br><!--EZCODE CENTER START--><div style="text-align:center">As National Journal revealed in February, <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>the NSA’s Advanced Research and Development Activity took over TIA and carried on the experimental network in late 2003</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->. <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>ARDA continued vetting new tools and even kept the aggressive experiment schedule</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->. . . documents show. <br><br>But it <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>discontinued some programs, most notably a multimillion-dollar effort to build privacy-protection technologies.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> <!--EZCODE UNDERLINE START--><span style="text-decoration:underline">ARDA also abandoned the effort to build audit trails in TIA, which would have permanently recorded any abuse by users</span><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE END-->.</div><!--EZCODE CENTER END--><br><br>The National Journal reports the program is now accessed by, among others: the NSA, the CIA, DIA, CENTCOM, the National Counterterorrism Center, the Guantanamo prison, and Special Operations Command (SOCOM).<br><br>...........<br><br>nothing new i can say.<br><br><br><br> <p>___________________________________________<br>"BUSHCO aren't incompetent...they are COMPLICIT." -Me<br><br>"Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act" -George Orwell</p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=dugoboy@rigorousintuition>dugoboy</A> at: 6/16/06 9:22 pm<br></i>
