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Total Information Awareness, Disguised And Alive

unassimilatible writes "According to the AP, aspects of the controversial Total Information Awareness DARPA program, officially shut down by the U.S. Congress in September 2003 after a public outcry, seem to have survived. The article reports, 'Some projects from retired Adm. John Poindexter's Total Information Awareness effort were transferred to U.S. intelligence offices, congressional, federal and research officials told The Associated Press. In addition, Congress left undisturbed a separate but similar $64 million research program run by a little-known office called the Advanced Research and Development Activity, or ARDA, that has used some of the same researchers as Poindexter's program.'"

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  1. Re:Similar by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Americans are free to leave

    Where? Which country is willing to take in a horde of ignorant lard-asses?

  2. Re:Similar by bigberk · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Americans are free to leave
    Yeah right! And where are you going to go? To Canada? Yeah right, as if it's that easy for skilled workers! You think those gunless, granola-eating, sickeningly-tolerant communist terrorists (your politicians' words) are going to accept you with open arms?

    They probably will actually, they're kinda weird like that.
  3. Re:Similar by tealover · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Canada accepts anyone who makes it to Canada. This makes them a very hospitable destination for the persecuted...and for terrorists.

    But if I were going to emigrate, Canada wouldn't be in my top 5. It's too much like the US but has shittier weather, a poor man's NYC (Toronto) and Friday Night Hockey.

    I will not live in a country that has Friday Night Hockey.

    --
    -- You see, there would be these conclusions that you could jump to
  4. Re:Similar by cfuse · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Americans are free to leave

    But don't you dare speak up or question the validity of the TIA program. That would be unamerican.

    Big Brother is always right, to think otherwise is thoughtcrime. You will be sent to the joycamp at guantanamo bay.