NSA Shopping In Silicon Valley For New, High-Tech Data Mining Systems...

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NSA Shopping In Silicon Valley For New, High-Tech Data Mining Systems...
The New York Times | JOHN MARKOFF | February 25, 2006 at 09:49 AM


A small group of National Security Agency officials slipped into Silicon Valley on one of the agency's periodic technology shopping expeditions this month.


On the wish list, according to several venture capitalists who met with the officials, were an array of technologies that underlie the fierce debate over the Bush administration's anti-terrorist eavesdropping program: computerized systems that reveal connections between seemingly innocuous and unrelated pieces of information.

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