NSA and TIA
With all the recent attention on the National Security Agency's surveillance program--particularly that it was the so-called "data mining" aspects that drew Alberto Gonzales and Andrew Card to John Ashcroft's hospital room back in 2004--I thought it was a good time to recall a story I wrote last summer.
This story goes into considerable detail about the NSA program, as well as DARPA's Total Information Awareness. It gives a lot of the shared history of these two programs, and it offers the views of some key senior intelligence officials.
With all the recent attention on the National Security Agency's surveillance program--particularly that it was the so-called "data mining" aspects that drew Alberto Gonzales and Andrew Card to John Ashcroft's hospital room back in 2004--I thought it was a good time to recall a story I wrote last summer.
This story goes into considerable detail about the NSA program, as well as DARPA's Total Information Awareness. It gives a lot of the shared history of these two programs, and it offers the views of some key senior intelligence officials.
Labels: Director of National Intelligence, National Security Agency, NSA surveillance, Total Information Awareness