Excuse me, sir, my tracking device seems to have come loose

Everybody's covering the WaPo front page story citing "pervasive errors" in the FBI's use of National Security Letters as outlined by the Patriot Act. "

The inspector general's audit found 22 possible breaches of internal FBI and Justice Department regulations.....Fine's audit, which was limited to 77 case files in four FBI field offices....

But, as that's getting good coverage and discussion, I thought I'd mention something else that's not. It's back again.

Homeland Security officials are testing a supersnoop computer system that sifts through personal information on U.S. citizens......

The system uses the same data-mining process that was developed by the Pentagon's Total Information Awareness (TIA) project that was banned by Congress in 2003 because of vast privacy violations.

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