Thursday, May 18, 2006

NSA Kills Legal Data Sifter

Democrat Taylor Marsh Blogs Politics: ". . .Officials say that after the successful tests of ThinThread in 1998, Taylor argued that the NSA should implement the full program. He later told the 9/11 Commission that ThinThread could have identified the hijackers had it been in place before the attacks, according to an intelligence expert close to the commission. ...

The strength of ThinThread's approach is that by encrypting information on Americans, it is legal regardless of whether the country is at war, according to one intelligence official.

Officials familiar with Thin Thread say some within NSA were stunned by the legal flip-flop. ThinThread 'was designed very carefully from a legal point of view, so that even in non-wartime, you could have done it legitimately,' the official said. ...

NSA killed system that sifted phone data legally
Sources say project was shelved in part because of bureaucratic infighting . . ."

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