Poindexter The Lightning Rod

Gary “ResourceShelf” Price sent over a GovExec.com Article on John Poindexter and Total Information Awareness.

Poindexter introduced TIA to the Defense Department in October 2001, after the Sept. 11 attacks appeared to show that the world’s smartest intelligence services were incapable of connecting dots in a line of intelligence pointing to the assaults. Poindexter believes TIA might have put those dots together.

Before TIA’s first birthday, Poindexter’s work had spawned a national controversy. Amidst a new global war on terror backed by enhanced government powers to monitor Americans granted by the 2001 USA Patriot Act, Poindexter’s quest for total information awareness assumed an Orwellian cast.

July 28, 2004 by Uncategorized 2

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  1. VALIS says:
    July 30, 2004 at 4:02 am

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    Blake, the link isn’t working.

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  2. Anonymous says:
    July 30, 2004 at 4:49 am

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    Doh! Thanks, fixed it/

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