That's all well and good. I'm just saying that their "product" is nothing new, their reason for creating it is a lie intended to mislead people too ignorant of the news to know what is actually going on, and the hype is just that--pure hype, unadulterated by anything like reality or substance. I find it absurd, and an indictment of the average American that the media are trumpeting this horse$hit simultaneously with legitimate news reports that funding for TIA is about to be killed by pending legislation.
Quote:The controversial Terrorism Information Awareness program, which would troll Americans' personal records to find terrorists before they strike, may soon face the same fate Congress meted out to John Ashcroft in his attempt to create a corps of volunteer domestic spies: death by legislation.
The Senate's $368 billion version of the 2004 defense appropriations bill, released from committee to the full Senate on Wednesday, contains a provision that would deny all funds to, and thus would effectively kill, the Terrorism Information Awareness program, formerly known as Total Information Awareness. TIA's projected budget for 2004 is $169 million.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,59606,00.html
I also find it shocking that while Wired News and many international sources were running news of the pending budget freeze for TIA on July 14, the Washington Times chose to run a story on July 15 that focused on TIA's "threat" to privacy while completely failing to mention the potential death of the program.
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20030714-113918-2868r.htm
But of course, I wouldn't dream of suggesting that there is a bias in the media. I'm sure it's just sloppiness; reporters writing about stuff they know nothing about. That's probably it.