Seems like it's alive & almost well even after Congress unanimously
vetoed spying on US residents in 2003 (TIA/ IAO).

http://www.myleftwing.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=4758
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And Senator Rockfeller reminded Bush of the veto on TIA and similar programs...
Yet Bush ignored it
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http://www.democracynow.org/article..../02/27/1519235
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Total Information Awareness Lives On Inside the National Security Agency
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Months earlier New York Times columnist William Safire had warned about the
dangers of the program. In a column headlined "You Are A Suspect" Safire wrote:

"If the Homeland Security Act is not amended before passage, here is what will
happen to you:
"Every purchase you make with a credit card, every magazine subscription you buy
and medical prescription you fill, every Web site you visit and e-mail you send
or receive, every academic grade you receive, every bank deposit you make, every
trip you book and every event you attend -- all these transactions and
communications will go into what the Defense Department describes as 'a virtual,
centralized grand database.'

"To this computerized dossier on your private life from commercial sources, add
every piece of information that government has about you -- passport
application, driver's license and bridge toll records, judicial and divorce
records, complaints from nosy neighbors to the F.B.I., your lifetime paper trail
plus the latest hidden camera surveillance -- and you have the supersnoop's
dream: a "Total Information Awareness" about every U.S. citizen.

"This is not some far-out Orwellian scenario. It is what will happen to your
personal freedom in the next few weeks if John Poindexter gets the unprecedented
power he seeks."
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It now appears that the project "was stopped in name only" and that TIA is in
fact continuing. The National Journal reports that TIA was moved from the
Pentagon's research-and-development agency - known by its acronym DARPA - to
another group, which builds technologies primarily for the NSA.
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http://nationaljournal.com/about/njw...6/0223nj1.htm#
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Cliff