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U.S. Hopes to Check Computers Globally by Robert O'Harrow Jr., Washington Post, November 12, 2002

Pentagon Plans a Computer System That Would Peek at Personal Data of Americans by John Markoff, New York Times, November 9, 2002

Terrorist-Tracking Tools by William New, Government Executive Magazine, September 10, 2002

Authors Defend Homeland Bill's Privacy Provisions by Stephen Dinan, Washington Times, November 16, 2002

Big Brother Goes to Washington by Arlene Getz, Newsweek, November 15, 2002

Feds Open "Total" Tech System by Eliot Borin, Wired News, August 7, 2002

DARPA Devoloping Info Awareness by Dan Caterinicchia, Federal Computer Week, October 17, 2002

Pentagon to Develop Revolutionary IT Systems to Counter Terrorism, Agence France-Presse, November 16, 2002

Watchdog Urges Bush to End Pentagon Data-Mining Plan, Straits Times, November 18, 2002

ACLU Calls on President Bush to Disavow New Cyber-Spying Scheme That Seeks to Put Every American Under Scrutiny, ACLU, November 14, 2002

Rumsfield Says Don't Sweat DARPA Info Awareness Experiment by Jim Garamone, American Forces Press Service, November 18, 2002
Rumsfield equates TIA with the invention of the Internet

Senate Passes Security Bill by Edward Epstein, San Francisco Chronicle, November 20, 2002
Senator Byrd speaks out against Total Information Awareness

Gore Rips "Big Brother" Bush by Ed Robinson, New York Post, November 20, 2002

Homeland Security: A Primer by Jessica Reaves, Time Magazine, November 19, 2002
"While more extensive legislation is needed to completely open the floodgates of heretofore private information, wording in the current HSD bill is enough to amend the Privacy Act of 1974."

NEW! FBI's Increased Powers Under Spotlight by Edward Alden and David Landes, Financial Times, November 21, 2002

NEW! Refuting "Big Brother" Charge by Tom Brune, Newsday, November 21, 2002

NEW! Defense Department Backs Tracking of Personal Data by George Edmonson, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, November 21, 2002

NEW! Someone to Watch Over Us by Cynthia Webb, Washington Post, November 21, 2002
Good summary of recent Total Information Awareness news and opinion.

Action

ACLU's "Stop the Government Plan to Mine our Privacy"

Contact Your Representatives

Informational Documents

Transcript of 11/18/02 PBS NewsHour TIA discussion
Fully fleshes out all the issues.

Press Release Announcing Booz-Allen-Hamilton TIA contract

Total Information Awareness System Description

Transcript of 11/20/02 Defense Department Briefing

2003 DARPA Budget Estimate
Reveals some details about TIA funding.

Letter from over 30 civil liberties groups asking Senate leaders Daschle and Lott to prohibit the TIA program

Total Information Awareness Slide Show for the Fall Intel 2002 Conference

February 25, 2002 Press Briefing by Press Secretary Ari Fleischer
In the briefing, Fleischer claims he is not aware of the appointment of Poindexter and that Poindexter is "somebody who this administration thinks is an outstanding American and an outstanding citizen who has done a very good job in what he has done for our country."

Speech by John Poindexter to the DARPATech 2002 Conference on August 2, 2002

Information Awareness Office Contract Solicitation

Transcript of 11/19/02 CNN Larry King Live
Al Gore speaks out on Total Information Awareness.

Congressional Mentions
Some congressional record excerpts may take awhile to load.

Senator Byrd reads William Safire's entire column during Senate debate over Homeland Security Act (excerpt)
Full transcript (the reference is near the top)

NEW! Excerpt From 11/18/02 Congressional Record
Senator Bill Nelson (FL) opposes Total Information Awareness.

NEW! Excerpt From 11/18/02 Congressional Record
Senator Byron Dorgan (ND) opposes TIA (search page for "information awareness office").

NEW! Excerpt From 11/14/02 Congressional Record
Congressman Ron Paul comes out against Total Information Awareness.

Other Resource Sites

EPIC's Total Information Awareness Page

Sciencia Est Potencia - Knowledge is Power (German)
Link partially translates German to English.

Big Brother Incoporated

Opinion

Total Information Awareness, Washington Post, November 16, 2002

You Are a Suspect by William Safire, New York Times, November 14, 2002

NEW! Massive Database Dragnet Explored by Jim Puzzanghera, San Jose Mercury News, November 20, 2002
Senator Feinstein "plans to introduce legislation to ensure that the project does not infringe on the privacy rights of Americans!" Thank you to all Californians who emailed her about TIA. Please thank Senator Feinstein (whether or not you vote in California) so we can show her the widespread support for her legislation.

NEW! Total Information Unawareness by Shane Harris, Government Executive Magazine, November 20, 2002

"A Supersnoop's Dream" by Audrey Hudson, Washington Times, November 15, 2002

NEW! No Orwellian Scheme Behind DARPA's Total Information Awareness System, Heritage Foundation, November 20, 2002

Information Awareness Office Goes Primetime by Anthony Lappe, Guerilla News Network, November 14, 2002

A Snooper's Dream, New York Times, November 18, 2002

NEW! Government Knows Best?, San Francisco Chronicle, November 19, 2002
"The new computer database, if implemented, will constitute the greatest invasion of individual privacy and the most extensive violation of the Fourth Amendment that has ever occurred in American history."

NEW! Watched and Listed by Richard Cohen, Washington Post, November 21, 2002

John Poindexter

Meet Big Brother - John Poindexter and the Iran-Contra Reunion Tour

No More Mr. Scrupulous Guy by John Sutherland, The Guardian (UK), February 18, 2002

Chief Takes Over New Agency to Thwart Attacks on the U.S. by John Markoff, New York Times, February 13, 2002

US Gov's "Ultimate Database" Run by a Felon by Thomas C. Greene, The Register, November 14, 2002

John Poindexter, "Outstanding American" by Timothy Noah, Slate.com, February 25, 2002

Official Sites

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