Friday, February 24, 2006

[USA] TIA [Controversial counter-terror program] Lives On / NATIONAL JOURNAL, 23 Feb 2006

http://nationaljournal.com/about/njweekly/stories/2006/0223nj1.htm
"A controversial counter-terrorism program, which lawmakers halted more than two years ago amid outcries from privacy advocates, was stopped in name only and has quietly continued within the intelligence agency now fending off charges that it has violated the privacy of U.S. citizens.
It is no secret that some parts of TIA lived on behind the veil of the classified intelligence budget. Research under the Defense Department's Total Information Awareness program -- which developed technologies to predict terrorist attacks by mining government databases and the personal records of people in the United States -- was moved from the Pentagon's research-and-development agency to another group."