According to a 9/11 Commission document, the US has a “single database that contains terrorist-related intelligence and law enforcement information in a single repository, enabling detailed link, pattern, and trend analysis.”
The commission document is a draft briefing request for the Pentagon, apparently written by commission Counsel Daniel Marcus sometime in August 2003. It requests an “orientation/briefing” from the Joint Intelligence Task Force-Combating Terrorism on five issues, the fourth of which is the database. The request can be found on page 55 of the pdf file.
The request was found in the 9/11 Commission’s files at the National Archives by History Commons contributor Erik Larson and uploaded to the 9/11 Document Archive at Scribd.
I thought the mention of the database was interesting, and just wanted to pass it on. I’m sure somebody else can make better sense of it than I.
Sounds like something to do with TIA…
http://w2.eff.org/Privacy/TIA/
http://epic.org/privacy/profiling/tia/
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Total_Information_Awareness#Gov.27t_Quietly_Brings_Back_Total_Information_Awareness
http://www.aclu.org/privacy/spying/14956res20040116.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Awareness_Office
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