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FBI Conducts Feasibility Study on Project Sentinel

Posted by timothy on from the keeping-man-safe-from-tyranny dept.

leave-no-trace writes "CNN reports that "FBI officials hope to award a contract by the year's end for a complex new software program (dubbed Sentinel) to replace a failed project that was canceled this year at a cost of more than $100 million to taxpayers." The system is supposed to include search capabilities, protocols for processing and handling FBI reports, security issues and a new system for records management. FBI Director Robert Mueller told lawmakers he is unable yet to place a price tag on the Sentinel project."

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  1. Random Sad Thoughts ... by TedTschopp · · Score: 0, Troll

    Man 'killed' the all knowing all seeing and now 'we' are finding we need a replacement for him so 'we' are empowering our government to be that all seeing all knowing force.

    I personally think the All knowing all Powerful God was a bit more manageable than the All knowing and All Powerful state.

    --
    Fantasy remains a human right; we make in our measure and in our derivative mode... -- JRR Tolkien
  2. Civic Procurement by omb · · Score: 1, Troll

    Compare and contrast DARPA, which founded the
    research to build the internet,

    and what is happening in the post 9/11 chaos,

    one was engineer led, the other opressive and
    much more importantly, completely inefective.

    Someone, in the US space, needs to start asking
    serious questions, so security policy is made by
    scientists and engineers, not politicians, whether
    elected or not. If US military-industrial waste is
    allowed to continue, in this failure mode,

    Usama bin-Laden will get another chance, and will
    do _more_ damage the next time.