-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [IP] US plans massive data sweep Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 10:14:52 -0600 From: John Lyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For IP if appropriate. "Protecting our freedoms" and making sure we don't "get hit again" are two different things. Even acknowledging the immense human cost of 9/11, I would still suggest that 9/11 was only peripherally an attack on our "freedoms," and the outer periphery at that. Seems to me it was primarily an attack on several high value targets - a limited economic attack, if you will, designed also to spread fear. An attack on "our freedoms" can really only come from inside our borders - from our own government, or from a government put in place by victorious foreign invaders. On 2/9/06 5:43 AM, "Dave Farber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> either wrote, forwarded or quoted:
Starlight has already helped foil some terror plots, says Jim Thomas, one of its developers and director of the government's new National Visualization Analytics Center in Richland, Wash. He can't elaborate because the cases are classified, he adds. But "there's no question that the technology we've invented here at the lab has been used to protect our freedoms - and that's pretty cool."
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