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NSA domestic intelligence "vacuum"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Wed Mar 26 13:27:22 2008
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:13:28 -0400
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Five years ago, Congress killed an experimental
Pentagon antiterrorism program meant to vacuum up electronic data
about people in the U.S. to search for suspicious patterns. Opponents
called it too broad an intrusion on Americans' privacy, even after the
Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
But the data-sifting effort didn't disappear. The National Security
Agency, once confined to foreign surveillance, has been building
essentially the same system.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120511973377523845.html?mod=todays_us_page_one
Hat tip: Bruce Schneier's blog.
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Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com
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