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Gov’t Quietly Brings Back Total Information Awareness

HeadlineJun 03, 2004

Reuters has obtained a Congressional report that shows nine months after Congress shut down the controversial Pentagon computer-surveillance program called Total Information Awareness, the U.S. government continues to comb private records and databases to sniff out suspicious activity. Peter Swire, who served as the Clinton’s administration’s top official said “I believe that Total Information Awareness is continuing under other names.”

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