The Associated Press is reporting that the government has quietly resumed researching surveillance programs that closely mirror the Pentagon’s controversial Total Information Awareness project which was terminated last year. Total Information Awareness attempted to track credit-card, travel, medical, school and other records of everyone in the United States. While Congress rejected Total Information Awareness, it gave $64 million for a data mining research project arranged by the Advanced Research and Development Activity. The little known agency is using some of the same researchers who had been working for Admiral John Poindexter in developing Total Information Awareness.