IP: US planning to recruit one in 24 Americans as citizen spies

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: "the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow" <geoff () iconia com>
> To: "Dave E-mail Pamphleteer Farber" <farber () cis upenn edu>
>
>
> US planning to recruit one in 24 Americans as citizen spies
>
> By Ritt Goldstein
> The Sydney Morning Herald
>
> July 15 2002
>
> The Bush Administration aims to recruit millions of United States citizens
> as domestic informants in a program likely to alarm civil liberties groups.
>
> The Terrorism Information and Prevention System, or TIPS, means the US will
> have a higher percentage of citizen informants than the former East Germany
> through the infamous Stasi secret police. The program would use a minimum of
> 4 per cent of Americans to report "suspicious activity".
>
> Civil liberties groups have already warned that, with the passage earlier
> this year of the Patriot Act, there is potential for abusive, large-scale
> investigations of US citizens.
>
> As with the Patriot Act, TIPS is being pursued as part of the so-called war
> against terrorism. It is a Department of Justice project.
>
> --SNIP--
>
> http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/07/14/1026185141232.html
>
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