What is the name of the Defense Department data mining program?

I can't think of it right now and am trying to respond to my dear old Dad's attack e-mail regarding the ACLU. Also, if you can think of prominent conservatives that belong, please let me know.

Thanks for your help DU!

on edit: may be carnivore?

here's a link:

http://proliberty.com/observer/20000917.htm

That's the latest incarnation, I think.

John Poindexter's baby

http://www.warblogging.com/archives/000803.php

It looks like my dancing on TIA's grave was, even then, premature. The Total Information Awareness research has been moved from the now-disbanded Information Awareness Office to what looks like a sub-agency of the National Security Agency.

Yesterday the Associated Perss reported that the "government is pressing ahead with research to create powerful tools to mine millions of public and private records for information about terrorists." Despite the fact that Congress eliminated the DARPA-based Information Awareness Office, the programs roll on.

The AP reports that the most of the functions of the Information Awareness Office — the programs to watch people's bank records, their vet records, their medical records, their travel records, their credit card records and so much more — have been transferred to a "little known" office called the Advanced Research and Development Activity, or ARDA.

DARPA = Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

was run by retired Admiral John Poindexter (ex-con and former NSA adviser to Reagan during Iran-Contra) up until around September last year when he came up with the insane FutureMap PAM program which eventually got him fired

FutureMap = Future Markets Applied to Prediction

TIA program = Total Information Awareness - computer surveillance program that has raised privacy concerns - also known as "the matrix"

and the ACLU is defending Limbaugh in the medical records seizure.

There's Echelon, which captures and scans international fax, voice and email transmissions for terror-related words, but was misused for insider trading.

There's Poindexter's baby, formerly Total Information Awareness, now called something like Terrorist Information Awareness...not certain on that last name. They changed the name because of a public outcry for privacy.

You might also want to mention Carnivore, which is an FBI tool that monitors email and web traffic.

On edit: There's facial recognition technology, which is notoriously unreliable, but was used to scan faces at a Super Bowl for terrorist matches. There are lots of hidden cameras in public places which help solve crimes but which can be used track people's movements. There's talk of chip implants which will be touted as I.D. but can also track movement.

that's the transportation dbase.

try the links on this page:

http://www.cdt.org/security/usapatriot/datamining.shtml

Originally all that research came under Poindexter's Total Information Awareness. After the uproar (read: William Safire biting the hand that feeds) over the masonic imagery of the logo and the orwellian overtones, they gave Poindexter an unlisted phone extension and renamed it Terrorist Infromation Awareness.

The program out in the forefront right now is called MATRIX. While it is not a DoD initiative, I understand alot of the foundations came from work done at DARPA

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Total Information Awareness. That was when John Poindexter was leading the program, and before Congress put the odious project down the crapper.

Conservative members of ACLU that I am aware of include Bob Barr and Dick Armey (I think. I know Bob Barr was working with the ACLU on privacy issues after passage of the so-called Patriot Act).