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Willamette Week
March 8, 2016
In the past 16 months, thanks to measures contained in the Patriot Act, theHomeland Security Act and the creation of the Total Information Awareness office, our government has turned into a bad Oliver Stone movie--you know, where a cabal of conservative spooks takes over and suddenly Big Brother is inÃâà...
Civil Service World
February 18, 2015
The government there adopted software that came from the Total Information Awareness Office of the United States' Defence Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA). Called the Risk Assessment and Horizon Scanning System, it is an enormously advanced policy making tool which picks up weakÃâà...
War on the Rocks
September 12, 2014
Projects like Admiral John Poindexter's Total Information Awareness Office (TIA) system and the Counterintelligence Field Activity (CFA) were hotly resisted, dismantled and implemented piecemeal. Today, the Defense Clandestine Service (DCS) seems more like a competitor to the CIA. So why don't weÃâà...
Fast Company
September 21, 2011
He sites conversations with special forces and federal intelligence officials, books like The Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance State, the government's defunct Total Information Awareness Office, which sought terrorists by culling the records of U.S. occupants before losing funding, and dailyÃâà...