House and Senate Reject E-mail Surveillance

vena writes "The Star Tribune reports the House and Senate today agreed not to allow email surveillance of American citizens proposed by the Total Information Awareness program. Additionally, negotiators agreed to halt all future funding on the program without extensive consultation with Congress."

Comments

The Original Article from Last Night . . .

[Tiro]

This is funny, /. cites the Star-Tribune, some obscure Wisconsin paper.

Perhaps they missed the article in the New York Times last night?

I hate to be a pretentious citer of the Times, but come on. The guy who wrote the article found in the Star-Tribune is a writer for the New York Times! So just cite the original paper.

So, here's the link to the original: http://nytimes.com/2003/02/12/politics/12PRIV.html

All I have to say is...

[lasmith05]

YATTA!!