The chosen ones
Contragate criminal John Poindexter's Total Information Awareness project, under construction in the bowels of the Pentagon with the capability to keep track of an individual's every electronic move, is not designed to screen the behavior of 285 million Americans. Too much data, few practical uses. But tens or a few hundreds of thousands of politically marked targets - that's a potentially doable mission. The logic of world events and the zeal of the Bush men will create the domestic emergency long before Poindexter's machine is ready but, by its very existence, the project telegraphs the regime's intentions.
Here's how Poindexter's Information Awareness Office describes his project:
The TIA program objective is to create a counter-terrorism information system that: (1) increases information coverage by an order of magnitude, and affords easy future scaling; (2) provides focused warnings within an hour after a triggering event occurs or an evidence threshold is passed; (3) can automatically queue analysts based on partial pattern matches and has patterns that cover 90% of all previously known foreign terrorist attacks; and, (4) supports collaboration, analytical reasoning and information sharing so that analysts can hypothesize, test and propose theories and mitigating strategies about possible futures, so decision-makers can effectively evaluate the impact of current or future policies and prospective courses of action.
Contragate criminal John Poindexter's Total Information Awareness project, under construction in the bowels of the Pentagon with the capability to keep track of an individual's every electronic move, is not designed to screen the behavior of 285 million Americans. Too much data, few practical uses. But tens or a few hundreds of thousands of politically marked targets - that's a potentially doable mission. The logic of world events and the zeal of the Bush men will create the domestic emergency long before Poindexter's machine is ready but, by its very existence, the project telegraphs the regime's intentions.
Here's how Poindexter's Information Awareness Office describes his project:
The TIA program objective is to create a counter-terrorism information system that: (1) increases information coverage by an order of magnitude, and affords easy future scaling; (2) provides focused warnings within an hour after a triggering event occurs or an evidence threshold is passed; (3) can automatically queue analysts based on partial pattern matches and has patterns that cover 90% of all previously known foreign terrorist attacks; and, (4) supports collaboration, analytical reasoning and information sharing so that analysts can hypothesize, test and propose theories and mitigating strategies about possible futures, so decision-makers can effectively evaluate the impact of current or future policies and prospective courses of action.