Poindexter: Strip-searching all 300 million of you requires advanced tech.

[trogdor]

Real title: Finding the Face of Terror in Data by Adm. (Ret.) John Poindexter. :scared: In it, he makes a half-assed attempt to debunk what the "tinfoil hatters" :tinfoilhat: have been saying about DARPA's Total Information Awareness program, only to leave the reader even more apprehensive than ever.

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Terrorists operate worldwide, and information about their activities is mixed in with data about innocent people. In many cases, moreover, foreign countries — many of them American allies — have more stringent privacy laws than those of the United States. If we are to have access to this activity data, then we must also have some way to protect the identity of those found not to be involved in terrorism.

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What the hell does this mean? First we'll invade your privacy and then, if you are found to be innocent, we'll leave you alone and respect your privacy? :scared:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/10/opinion/10POIN.html?th

[MrBenchley]

1. The same idiots who want to do this

are afraid to say "boo" to Saudi Arabia...

[sattahipdeep]

2. RIAA 12 year old? CIA Where's korndoggy?

Curious trades. Curious connections. No public release of AN investigative
findings...And no one talks abou it anÿmore. ALL coincidence?

http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16570-2001Mar16.html
But Krongard exhibited the requisite secretiveness when asked
to explain his interest in intelligence and how he came to land
a job in Tenet's inner circle. If you go back to the CIA's origins
during World War II in the Office of Strategic Services, he
explained, "the whole OSS was really nothing but Wall Street
bankers and lawyers."