It's official: the pentagon's terrorism (formerly total) Information Awareness program has been a Total Institutional Dis-aster. Last month Congress pulled the plug on the Department of Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) high-tech initiative to identify terrorist threats. Certainly everyone concerned with the ability of the government to snoop on its citizens should be satisfied that, in this case at least, legislators stood up for the sanctity of personal information. But I suggest we go easy on the celebrations.
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