Your tax dollars at work: Congress attempted to kill the ill-conceived Terrorist Information Awareness program in 2003. But instead, the Rasputin-like program — designed to somehow find terrorists from a sky-high pile of credit card bills, car rental receipts and travel records — came back, bigger and stronger and arguably worse than ever, National Journal‘s Shane Harris reports today (article not available online — yet, anyway).
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=183094