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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...
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...
To what extent do you think the outrage over Total Information Awareness - with its name and its logo, the all-seeing eye - was a p.r. problem?A lot of it was a p.r. problem. You had the name, which was scary, the logo, which was just preposterous - I mean, it...
Faced with such alarming statistics, the European Union, in an attempt to battle the bloc's growing bulge, is mulling drastic changes in the way food products are labeled. The most controversial of the proposals so far is a flashy label backed by health and consumer groups that's based...
Linda McAvan, a member of the European Parliament from Britain's Labour Party and a supporter of the color-coded food labels, echoes that sentiment. "There is evidence that consumer pressure generated through the traffic-light scheme can lead to product reformulation by retailers," she says. "One major retailer told...