Saturday, May 13, 2006

Early Warning ( Another waste of taxpayer money)

Unless terrorists are not really the targets.

Early Warning by William M. Arkin - washingtonpost.com:

"These cutting edge tools -- some highly classified because of their functions and capabilities -- continually process hundreds of billions of what are called 'structured' data records, including telephone call records and e-mail headers contained in information 'feeds' that have been established to flow into the intelligence agencies.

The multi-billion dollar program, which began before 9/11 but has been accelerated since then. Well over 100 government contractors have participated, including both small boutique companies whose products include commercial off-the-shelf software and some of the largest defense contractors, who have developed specialized software and tools exclusively for government use. "

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