TIA: Terrorist Information Awareness
Bill Stewart
bill.stewart at pobox.com
Thu May 22 11:28:41 PDT 2003
At 03:09 PM 05/21/2003 -0400, stuart wrote:
>http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/21/international/worldspecial/21PRIV.html?tntemail1
>
>The Total Information Awareness Program has been dressed in drag,
>now it is the Terrorist Information Awareness Program.
>
>Best line:
>"Saying they are worried about Americans' privacy, Pentagon officials
> announced in a report today that they were changing the name of a
> projected system to mine databases for information to help catch
> terrorists to Terrorist Information Awareness from Total Information
> Awareness."
>
>They're worried about Americans' privacy, so they change the name?
>How thoughtful of them, I feel better already.
No, no, you're misunderstanding it.
They're renaming it because anybody they want to watch is a terrorist.
That's not just the 13 million people on the FBI's Watch List,
it's the 250 million suspicious characters they haven't got evidence on yet.
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