Data Mining Programs and Cheney/Rumsfeld TIA – ARDA – DTO

Outsourcing Big Brother: Office of Total Information Awareness Relies on Private Sector to Track Americans

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17, 2002 — The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which oversees the Total Information Awareness System (TIA), awarded 13 contracts to Booz Allen & Hamilton amounting to more than $23 million. Lockheed Martin Corporation had 23 contracts worth $27 million; the Schafer Corporation had 9 contracts totaling $15 million. Other prominent contractors involved in the TIA program include SRS Technologies, Adroit Systems, CACI Dynamic Systems, Syntek Technologies, and ASI Systems International.

John Poindexter, a former national security adviser, brought the idea for the Terrorism Information Awareness surveillance system to the Pentagon.   (Photo/ Alex Brandon -- AP)

TIA itself was first proposed by an employee of a private contractor. John Poindexter, who worked on DARPA projects for Syntek, an Arlington, Va.-based technical and engineering services firm, suggested the program in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Poindexter, who headed the National Security Council during the Reagan administration, was convicted in 1990 on five felony counts for his role in the Iran-Contra scandal. The convictions were overturned in 1991 because he had been given immunity for his testimony during the congressional investigation of the affair. On Jan. 14, 2002, he returned to the government as the director of the Information Awareness Office.

Total “Terrorism” Information Awareness

ARDA@NSA: Novel Intelligence from Massive Data

Disruptive Technology Office (DTO) @NSA

Pentagon Surveillance System (TIA) Is Reborn in Asia – 2007
    Risk Assessment and Horizon Scanning (RAHS)

Patriotism After 9/11 and Data Mining
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Telecom infrastructure was severly damaged in New York and Wall Street was closed down. The White House called upon major corporations to support America in it’s fight against terror. I belief this call was answered with blind allegiance to the Republican leadership.

Computer glitch on election night, repeated thereafter in many states.
Data mining programs (MATRIX) with supervision of Dick Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz.
Global Networks and the Pentagon.
Position of Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer and Cisco’s as the most prominent players.

Recall the Microsoft antitrust lawsuit with prosecutor David Boies
Steve Ballmer (Accenture board member) and the Florida voter purge
SAIC empire and links to anthrax – networks –
Oops, Olson, Fort Detrick and the CIA (anthrax in the ’50’s)
ANSER corporation and Homeland Security
Recall John Bolton and the NSA transcripts.

My work at Daily Kos – PropaG search ¶ GOP Politics Sexy acts ¶ GOPUSA Board Members
Continued @BooMan – Carlyle Group Bid for U.S. DataMining Ownership ¶ VNU – LexisNexis – Seisint Inc – MATRIX

CAPPS II: Government Surveillance via Passenger Profiling

What’s Happening?

The U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has announced plans to implement CAPPS II, a controversial passenger profiling and surveillance system that would require you to give your birth date, home phone number, and home address before you can board a U.S. flight. Under CAPPS II, travel authorities would check these and other personal details against the information collected in government and commercial databases, then “tag” you with a color-coded score indicating the level of security risk that you appear to pose. Based on your assigned color/score, you could be detained, interrogated or made subject to additional searches. If you are tagged with the wrong color/score, you could be prohibited from flying.

Cunningham, CIFA, and Cheney, a New Chronology

In light of the news that Alberto Gonzales granted Cheney presidential powers to snoop into ongoing investigations in May 2006, I thought it was time to update my chronology of the CIFA side of the Cunningham scandal.