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Dec 3, 2002. From Salon.com article by Farhad Manjoo, "Is Big Brother our only hope against bin Laden?"

Is Big Brother our only hope against bin Laden? Civil libertarians are outraged about Total Information Awareness, the government's Orwellian plan to monitor everyone, all the time. But some computer scientists say it might be the only way to save civilization.

We could have predicted it. That's the underlying assumption of Total Information Awareness, a new Defense Department program that aims to collect and analyze mountains of personal data -- on foreigners as well as Americans -- in the hope of spotting the sort of "suspicious" behavior that preceded the attacks on New York and Washington.

Here is the full story from Salon.com.