JournalistShane Harristells Terry Gross about why the T.I.A (Total Information Awareness) program was shut down:
The name creeped people out. It was called ‘Total Information Awareness,’ it had this logo of the pyramid from the great seal of the United States with this floating eye on it casing a beam over the globe. It looked very menacing. And it did not help at all that they guy running it was John Poindexter, who was best known was the key architect of the Iran-Contra Affair. … And people looked at this and said, ‘This is exactly the kind of surveillance excess that we’ve been warning about since 9/11. This is the government going way too far, and being way too intrusive into people’s private lives, and they shouldn’t be allowed to collect this kind of information. So shut the program down.’
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If the moon hit your eye like a big pizza pie, you would probably die.
I am Dr. Frasier Crane.
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idk if it’s the sleep deprivation i’ve had but i find this hilarious