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Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 14:55:06 -0800
From: Hasan Diwan <hasan.diwan () gmail com>
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Date: 23-Feb-2006 21:16
Subject: [sv4dean] "Total Information Awareness" - secretly funded in
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*http://nationaljournal.com/about/njweekly/stories/2006/0223nj1.htm*

*TIA Lives On *

By Shane Harris <sharris () nationaljournal com>, *National Journal*
(c) National Journal Group Inc.
Thursday, Feb. 23, 2006

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.

It is no secret that some parts of TIA lived on behind the veil of the
classified intelligence budget. However, the projects that moved, their new
code names, and the agencies that took them over haven't previously been
disclosed. Sources aware of the transfers declined to speak on the record
for this story because, they said, the identities of the specific programs
are classified.

Two of the most important components of the TIA program were moved to the
Advanced Research and Development Activity, housed at NSA headquarters in
Fort Meade, Md., documents and sources confirm. One piece was the
Information Awareness Prototype System, the core architecture that tied
together numerous information extraction, analysis, and dissemination tools
developed under TIA. The prototype system included privacy-protection
technologies that may have been discontinued or scaled back following the
move to ARDA. .....

Sharkey played a key role in TIA's birth, when he and a close friend,
retired Navy Vice Adm. *John Poindexter*, *President Reagan*'s national
security adviser, brought the idea to Defense officials shortly after the
9/11 attacks. The men had teamed earlier on intelligence-technology programs
for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which agreed to host TIA
and hired Poindexter to run it in 2002. In August 2003, Poindexter was
forced to resign
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A51578-2003Aug12>as TIA
chief amid howls that his central role in the Iran-Contra scandal of
the mid-1980s made him unfit to run a sensitive intelligence program.
....etc.


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