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Congress kills data-mining computer program
(EXCERPT) , By Audrey Hudson THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Congress has pulled the plug on a data-mining computer program
criticized by privacy advocates as a supersnoop system to spy on
American citizens and is closing the Pentagon office that created it.
"The outcome is we are not going to have Americans picked up by their
ankles and turned upside down then shaken to see if anything funny
falls out," said Sen. Ron Wyden, Oregon Democrat and leading opponent
of the office's activities. "We won't see Americans on American soil
being targeted under the biggest surveillance program in the history
of the U.S.," Mr. Wyden said. A House and Senate conference committee
late Wednesday agreed on instructions to close the Information
Awareness Office (IAO) and included the instructi...
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