[meadsjn]

Recent news reports hold that Able Danger has been shut down and all the data destroyed. Anyone familiar with "disaster recovery", or "continuity of business", recognizes that to mean "restoring the system in another location, and continuing as if nothing happened".

durasell: Potential misuse of data by the gov't can be dealt with via laws.

Apparently not.

LTC Shaffer is on the hot seat precisely because neither party, nor any of the involved agencies, wanted the general public to know about such operations. They could care less about foreign terrorists (who simply provide the basis and funding for the inception of such programs). It is the tax-paying citizens who must be monitored and controlled.

[durasell]

I'm not big on the whole Big Brother thing -- though George Orwell's real name was Eric Blair. What was he trying to hide?