On Wednesday 16 July 2003 08:51 pm, Tim May wrote: > On Wednesday, July 16, 2003, at 04:54 PM, Steve Schear wrote: > > The controversial Terrorism Information Awareness program, which would > > troll Americans' personal records to find terrorists before they > > strike, may soon face the same fate Congress meted out to John > > Ashcroft in his attempt to create a corps of volunteer domestic spies: > > death by legislation. > > > > http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,59606,00.html > > "In other news, the Senate Select Committee on Children's and Workplace > Safety met today to consider the Total Safety Awareness Bill. > Newly-appointed Commissioner of Child Safety, John Poindexter, declared > that TSA will "finally make the streets safe for children." He > dismissed any concern that this bill is just a rehashing of the failed > Total Information Awareness program." >
DOD Lackey: "Sorry Mr. Rumsfield, we won't be able to the money for this from the Homeland Security Budget". Don: "Damn! Oh well just put the stuff in in next year's black program budget. I guess we'll have to scratch a X-35FDRFS thingy, but we already had budgeted for twice as many as we really need. Nice try though!" DOD: Yes Sir Mr. Rumsfield ! -- Neil Johnson http://www.njohnsn.com PGP key available on request.
