WIRED News: Funding for TIA All But Dead

Funding for TIA All But Dead

By Ryan Singel

02:00 AM Jul. 14, 2003 PT

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.

The Senate's $368 billion version of the 2004 defense appropriations bill, released from committee to the full Senate on Wednesday, contains a provision that would deny all funds to, and thus would effectively kill, the Terrorism Information Awareness program, formerly known as Total Information Awareness. TIA's projected budget for 2004 is $169 million.

TIA is the brainchild of John Poindexter, a key figure from the Iran-Contra scandal, who now heads the research effort at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

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No problem.

Eloriel

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If it isn't funded in an aboveboard manner but still stays law, then there will be black-ops type funding for it. This means we will never know, either by reports or by budget means, WTF they are up to.