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Wednesday, September 03, 2008

uh oh

one of our national data collection centers/programs/spy headquarters may be 'on the brink of collapse'? uh oh.

i wonder if someone who is considering voting for mccain goes though the list. what list? the list of horrid things that have happened since king george ascend the throne. THAT list.

i just don't understand how ANYONE NO MATTER WHAT PARTY THEY ARE LOYAL TO, COULD VOTE FOR MORE OF THE SAME (or worse)
f**k up after f**k up after f**k up. this isn't the keystone cops here. it's costing us HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.

(just wait until those winter heating bills start pouring in)


Controversy Snarls Upgrade Of Terrorist Data Repository

Washington Post Staff Writer

A major effort to upgrade intelligence computers that hold the government's master list of terrorist identities is embroiled in controversy about the project's management and the work of contractors hired for the job, documents and interviews show.

The Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment, or TIDE, serves as the central repository of information about more than 400,000 suspected terrorists around the world. Operating at the National Counterterrorism Center, TIDE and other systems each day deliver files of information to watch-list programs that screen people traveling into the United States, or they make data available online to intelligence analysts across the government...............

............After more than a year and about $100 million, the Railhead project has become the focus of criticism from some counterterrorism analysts and contractors, who have said it does not provide the search capabilities they expected and appears to be behind schedule. One lawmaker has taken up those questions and publicly asked for an investigation by the inspector general of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, saying his congressional staff has information from a contractor whistle-blower that shows the project is on the "brink of collapse," possibly threatening national security..............

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