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Total Information Awareness, Disguised And Alive

Posted by timothy on from the state-of-the-state dept.

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. Thank You, Slashdot by illuminata · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I, to, am totally aware.

    Hey, this act isn't so bad, afterall!

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  2. Intelligence !? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Sure, our intelligence agencies may not have seen Pearl Harbor coming (and never mind all those shiny dots on the radar screen), or September 11th (and didn't the INS even approve a visa application of one of the terrorists a few months after the attacks!?).

    But it sure is PATRIOTic to give them new fancy tools so that folks like Mr. Ashcroft and this other Dick can screw their fellow countrymen in the ass just a tad bit harder, at his convenience. Cheers!

  3. 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?

  4. 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.
  5. 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.

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  6. Re:Similar by Aardpig · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    What's your country of residence? It appears they have no problem accepting them.

    USA, but I'm not American, I have a visa to work here. Ha ha ha!

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  7. Re:Friday? by tealover · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I'm American. I don't have to know the specifics of Canadian culture.

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  8. Re:Friday? by tealover · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Exactly. It's all about Pax Americana. When Pax Canadia rolls around, then we'll pay attention to you guys.

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  9. 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.