[dirtboy]

Instead we are asked to swallow crap like TIA. No thank you. Not without better performance from existing security functions.

First of all, the more I read up on TIA, the more I think the media has completely distorted that project. I work with large marketing databases for a living - and strongly believe the feds need to significantly improve their skills at analyzing their existing data stream. If TIA develops those tools within the federal realm, in a manner consistent with the Privacy Act of 1974, then it has the potential to do just that. If TIA seeks to build a massive transactional database, then I will have a serious problem with it, but I doubt that will ever happen - there is already a tremendous amount of resistance by the public to what the media has told them about TIA, and it will probably be severely curtailed.

[eno_]

What I said about Elian, Waco, Ruby Ridge, gun-grabbing during the sniper incident, etc., has everything to do with what you said: The government has little or no credibility with me, or many other Freepers, to ask for more powers. It is insulting that more powers are being asked for without addressing previous atrocities. You present a lot of "ifs" - why should I believe any of those "ifs" will be either written into law or correctly implemented if a murderer like Lon Horiuchi still walks free?

Morevoer, don't we have a recent track record by both JOhn Poindexter and Tom Ridge of them getting on TV and lying to our faces? How can either of these clowns be trusted?