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The whole argument boils down to a simple question: Why meddle with something that works? "If they do it, there will be unintended consequences," says Bilas. "The regular season and conference tournaments will be devalued. Then who's going to care about who gets snubbed? You think people are going...
It reads like a spy novel, but in The Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance State, author Shane Harris lays out the U.S. government's real-life efforts to see and hear more in the face of growing terrorist threats. He pays particular attention to Total Information Awareness (TIA...
How did you zero in on John Poindexter as the protagonist in this story?Back in 2002 and 2003, I was covering technology and the government, and I was writing about the Total Information Awareness program, which he was running at the Defense Department. I was never able to get...
What was unique about TIA?One was the scope of it. No one to that point had ever proposed trying to go out and find patterns of suspicious activity in data that was held in private hands. He wasn't just talking about mining through CIA reports and FBI reports...
You trace the rise of the American surveillance state to the Beirut bombings in 1983?There were all of these clues about terrorist attacks against the Americans in Lebanon that the intelligence community had failed to piece together. When I realized that this was sort of the beginning of suicidal...