FC: History revisionism at FEMA site -- Operation TIPS vanishes

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

Everyone remembers Operation TIPS, right -- the citizen-informant program? 
Some background:
http://www.politechbot.com/p-03894.html

A detailed webpage about TIPS used to be here:
http://www.citizencorps.gov/tips.html

It's been mysteriously deleted. I've copied it from Google's cache and 
mirrored it here:
http://www.politechbot.com/docs/tips.deleted.112002.html

I wonder if the case of the disappearing TIPS has anything to do with the 
Department of Homeland Security bill:

http://www.house.gov/rules/homeland.pdf
> SEC. 880. PROHIBITION OF THE TERRORISM INFORMATION AND PREVENTION SYSTEM.
> Any and all activities of the Federal Government to
> implement the proposed component program of the Citizen
> Corps known as Operation TIPS (Terrorism Information
> and Prevention System) are hereby prohibited.

-Declan




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