FBI Wants to Mine Massive Database in Search for Terrorists

[Purveyor]

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The FBI wants to compile a massive computer database and analyze it for clues to unmask terrorist sleeper cells.

A North Carolina congressman is one of two who are worried about whether the bureau will protect the privacy of U.S. citizens.

Reps. Brad Miller, D-North Carolina, and James Sensenbrenner, R-Wisconsin, the chairman and ranking Republican on the House Science and Technology investigations subcommittee, asked the Government Accountability Office to investigate the proposal. Their June 4 letter to GAO was released Tuesday.

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They said the program resembles the Pentagon's Total Information Awareness anti-terror data.m.ining research program. Congress ended TIA in 2003 out of privacy concerns, but much of its research was transferred to secret accounts in other agencies.



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[tridim]

1. Why do they even bother asking permission..

They're going to do whatever they want anyway. They already have.

[ticapnews]

3. The same reason they passed the Nuremburg Laws in 1935

to look legitimate in the eyes of the public.

It's all for the safety and security of the nation, you know...

[Demeter]

2. Why Do They Even Think Such Things Exist?

In the total absence of any positive, non-FBI entrapment? Now, if they come up with Aryan Nation plots, it might be worth the time...oh, wait, that's what we have in office right now!


I'll just sit quietly in a corner now....

[benld74]

4. what IF * name came up on their search??

[RC]

5. The FBI wants a list of terrorists?

Get a list of people in this administration - Past and present.

[wakeme2008]

6. The only good news is the FBI has never had a computer system that

worked. They love spending money for Shit.

:rofl:

[smtpgirl]

7. Don't bet your paycheck on it

NCR has a sister co, probably separated by now.

Look for a resurgence of NCR, it's not a POS company anymore, I'll bet that stock split in a year will bring millions to share holders.

The purpose for Teradata is to "un silo" the federal databases so that there is congruency in the sharing of data with federal agencies.



Teradata.com

http://www.ncr.com/solutions/enterprise_data_warehouse_solutions/index.jsp?lang=EN

NCR has this company that wants to obtain federal contracts for terabyte data warehousing.

Then there is google, MSN, Yahoo.....

[kimmylavin]

8. Search for Terrorists

Or liberals.
We've been branded the same thing, haven't we?

[tabasco]

9. "But if we stumble across a couple pot smokers, that'll be okay too."

I want my country back.

I am more afraid of the current government than any goddamn terrorist.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

10. Still hot on that ol' anthrax trail, I see.

Good. They may actually break the case in, oh, ten years more if given enough tools to pursue it. I say what they hey. :shrug:

[bemildred]

11. So.,umm, whatever did happen to the anthrax case anyway?

The Congress doesn't seem very interested in it either. No investigations there. Hmmm. Why would Congress not be interested in someone sending biological warfare agents to Congress anyway? Seems really odd. :think:

[AndyTiedye]

12. Because They KNOW Where they Came From And They Don't Want to Get Any More Letters Like That

or have their airplane fall out of the sky either:

[bemildred]

13. It just seems like an odd way to run a country eh?

It's kind of hard to pretend the rule of law means anything when this sort of thing is going on all the time and gets ignored. It's like we live in some sort of banana republic or something. And then there is the 2000 election, and lots of other things once you start thinking that way. But the anthrax case really sticks out ...

[AndyTiedye]

14. Funny You Should Mention That

It's like we live in some sort of banana republic or something.

It has been feeling that way since December 2000, when I did this:

[Amonester]

15. They should just ask Sibel Edmonds about the terrarist cells

in the White House...

That would save the defrauded taxpayers a lot of dough! (plus interests).

The Outstanding Public Debt as of 13 Jun 2007 at 04:17:30 AM GMT is:

$ 8 , 8 4 8 , 6 6 8 , 1 4 7 , 7 5 6 . 1 7

The estimated population of the United States is 302,143,564
so each citizen's share of this debt is $29,286.30.

The National Debt has continued to increase an average of
$1.33 billion per day since September 29, 2006!

AND their findings would be an awful lot more "productive!"

[Supersedeas]

16. when will conservatives wake up?