Reply #1: Data mining, the new high-ground for right wing politics

[donkeyotay]

Ever notice how many of these guys are into data mining. For example, Richard Perle had a data mining company called Autonomy. I don't know what's become of them, but I do know they got government contracts after 9/11, kind of a rags to riches story. But more to the point, there's a company called WOTI (White Oak Technology-ies Inc?) that was doing data mining for CIFA. They were able to get the federal elections data base on who's registered what and who gives to whom. They also developed a mining program that was supposed to ferret out hidden patterns of contributions -supposedly as an anticrime thing, but I suppose it might have other applications.

Funny how the party that was supposed to restore honor and dignity is parsing definitions and using wiggle words - oh no, not that program! You thought I was talking about the program you were talking about? Silly, I had my fingers crossed and said the one the preznit confirmed....

The NSA whistleblower, Russell Tice(?) I think made it plain he thought they were spying on everybody. That's probably what anything short of Fredo Gonzales'Just Us had trouble signing off on.