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For suspected terrorists/associates = yes.

What are you talking about ?

I'm talking about the project developed by Admiral Poindexter for Bush originally called Total Information Awareness (TIA) and eventually the Information Awareness Office that was going to cover all Americans. Parts of it are still around even after Conservatives came out against it and Congress de-funded most of it.

There were plenty of threads on freep about it, you can still find them if you want to look - go back to around late 2002 or early 2003.

I think the thing that bugged freepers the most was the Extraction of Evidence and Link Discovery, I think that's what it was called, that would look at all Americans' bank records, travel records, communications - both phone and internet (and some was based on the Clinton administration's carnivore stuff), etc., and would try to build links between everybody as well as a profile of all Americans.

As many Conservatives and the NRA pointed out, it could help an anti-gun administration generate a huge database of profiles of all American gun owners, what they buy that's gun-related, where they travel, how often they are active in gun-related activities, etc.

I can't imagine what Obama would use it for if Bush had gotten his way and kept the whole thing together instead of Congress coming down on him. It's worrisome to think about the parts that are still active.

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And you’re opining that Pres. Bush’s fight
... and yes, with the anti-American, terrorist
loving Congress, it was and IS a fight .. to
keep us safe (AS HE DID FOR NEARLY 8
YEARS) and monitor suspected terroris chatter/
email/phone traffic and financial transactions
was somehow scandalous and evil?