Total Information Awareness Lives On

This was the wide-reaching, all-seeing program [just look at the original logo!] that was spearheaded by John M. Poindexter of Iran-Contra fame. Originally started in 2002, the Congress defunded the program after an uproar of privacy concerns, but it has come out that it was just renamed and moved into another agency.

NOTE: Poindexter was convicted on multiple felony counts on April 7, 1990 for conspiracy, obstruction of justice, lying to Congress, defrauding the government, and the alteration and destruction of evidence pertaining to the Iran-Contra Affair. The convictions were reversed in 1991 on the technical grounds that the prosecution's evidence may have been tainted by exposure to Poindexter's testimony before the joint House-Senate committee investigating the matter, in which Poindexter's testimony was compelled by a grant of 'use immunity'. The prosecution was not able to re-try the case.

Link to the original Information Awareness Office mainpage
[Thanks to the memoryhole.org]

Link to the original Total Information System Diagram, Objectives and Strategy
[Thanks to the memoryhole.org]

Information Awareness Office on Wikipedia


!!! Please read this if you find the above hard to believe !!!
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