Pentagon Plans a Computer System That Would Peek at Personal Data of Americans
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/09/politics/09COMP.html?ex=1037509200&en=873f f5626a3c666e&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE The Pentagon is constructing a computer system that could create a vast electronic dragnet, searching for personal information as part of the hunt for terrorists around the globe - including the United States. As the director of the effort, Vice Adm. John M. Poindexter, has described the system in Pentagon documents and in speeches, it will provide intelligence analysts and law enforcement officials with instant access to information from Internet mail and calling records to credit card and banking transactions and travel documents, without a search warrant. Historically, military and intelligence agencies have not been permitted to spy on Americans without extraordinary legal authorization. But Admiral Poindexter, the former national security adviser in the Reagan administration, has argued that the government needs broad new powers to process, store and mine billions of minute details of electronic life in the United States. Much More On the Site xponent Sneaks Maru rob _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
