Reply #7: And I guess this document can be used to wipe our butts with....

[Lochloosa]

Congressional Record: September 24, 2003 (House)
H8500-H8550

CONFERENCE REPORT ON H.R. 2658, DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS
ACT, 2004 (House Report 108-283)



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Sec. 8131. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available in
this or any other Act may be obligated for the Terrorism
Information Awareness Program: Provided, That this limitation
shall not apply to the program hereby authorized for
Processing, analysis, and collaboration tools for
counterterrorism foreign intelligence, as described in the
Classified Annex accompanying the Department of Defense
Appropriations Act, 2004, for which funds are expressly
provided in the National Foreign Intelligence Program for
counterterrorism foreign intelligence purposes.
(b) None of the funds provided for Processing, analysis,
and collaboration tools for counterterrorism foreign
intelligence shall be available for deployment or
implementation except for:
(1) lawful military operations of the United States
conducted outside the United States; or
(2) lawful foreign intelligence activities conducted wholly
overseas, or wholly against non-United States citizens.
(c) In this section, the term "Terrorism Information
Awareness Program" means the program known either as
Terrorism Information Awareness or Total Information
Awareness, or any successor program, funded by the Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency, or any other Department or
element of the Federal Government, including the individual
components of such Program developed by the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency.

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JOINT EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

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Terrorism Information Awareness (TIA)

The conferees agree with the Senate position which
eliminates funding for the Terrorism Information Awareness
(TIA) program within the Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency (DARPA). The conferees are concerned about the
activities of the Information Awareness Office and direct
that the Office be terminated immediately. The only research
projects previously under the jurisdiction of the Information
Awareness Office that may continue under DARPA are: Bio-Event
Advanced Leading Indicator Recognition Technology, Rapid
Analytic Wargaming, Wargaming the Asymmetric Environment, and
Automated Speech and Text Exploitation in Multiple Languages
(including Babylon and Symphony). The conferees find these
programs are not components of TIA for the purposes of
section 8131. The conference agreement does not restrict the
National Foreign Intelligence Program from using processing,
analysis and collaboration tools for counterterrorism foreign
intelligence purposes.