NYT: Pentagon Abandons Plan for Futures Market on Terror

[blowback]

Pentagon Abandons Plan for Futures Market on Terror
By CARL HULSE


WASHINGTON, July 29 - The Pentagon office that proposed spying electronically on Americans to monitor potential terrorists has quickly abandoned an idea in which anonymous speculators would have bet on forecasting terrorist attacks, assassinations and coups in an online futures market.

Senator John W. Warner, the Virginia Republican who heads the Senate Armed Services Committee, said today that he had conferred with the program's director at the Pentagon, ``and we mutually agreed that this thing should be stopped.''


More:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/29/politics/29WIRE-PENT.html?ex=1060747200&en=d6d458d39a2cda96&ei=5004&partner=UNTD


edited to correct link

[KoKo]

1. Could you repost the link? NYT's is saying "page not found," when I

I connect. I'm a registered member......so it should come up.

[otohara]

2. Dupe -

Please continue dicussion here: I will also paste NY Times link

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=39277&mesg_id=39277&page=

[goforit]

3. Hmmmm......but will they have their own hidden gov't futures?

Cheney's dark underground Gov't is getting nasty!!!

I'm sure they will be on an agenda with all their pretend armies!