[lepton]

The more disturbing thing was that they got enough information to send a dozen different campaign e-mail versions out at the same time, tailored to the recipients -based on the information collected with their 80 some cookies they loaded on the computers of site visitors. That’s worse than double-click.

[Brad from Tennessee]

It may be coincidental that the Democrats are using techniques that paralleled an NSA project. If not it may be the DNC was given access to a contractor who modified classified software to fit the requirements of the political campaign. Prior to last week I wouldn't have dreamt anything so bizarre. I never heard of data mining until the Anthony Shaffer/Able Danger controversy. They were using data mining prior to 9/11 to track terrorists. Their program incorporated classified data with open source data.

I think maybe another shoe will drop this coming week. Or maybe a whole shoe store.