I Spy, With My Little Eye....

From National Journal:

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.

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, which builds technologies primarily for the National Security Agency, according to documents obtained by National Journal and to intelligence sources familiar with the move. The names of key projects were changed, apparently to conceal their identities, but their funding remained intact, often under the same contracts.

I'd like to take this moment to give a wave and a big, friendly howdy to "Basketball," the ongoing suveillance program that's probably monitoring me as I type.

Codemorse loves Mom, Apple Pie, and America. Codemorse does not love secretive spying on American citizens (and, to be honest, Apple Pie's sorta gross. But God Bless America! And Mom!)



(Link courtesy of D-Kos)