The Washington Times reports today what somehow, somewhere we already knew.
Homeland Security officials are testing a supersnoop computer system that sifts through personal information on U.S. citizens to detect possible terrorist attacks, prompting concerns from lawmakers who have called for investigations.
The system uses the same data-mining process that was developed by the Pentagon’s Total Information Awareness (TIA) project that was banned by Congress in 2003 because of vast privacy violations.
The proposed spending bill provides this helpful snippet:
“The ADVISE program is designed to extract relationships and correlations from large amounts of data to produce actionable intelligence on terrorists,” the spending bill said. “A prototype is currently available to analysts in Intelligence and Analysis using departmental and other data, including some on U.S. citizens.”
