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Friday, December 20, 2002

Why does the U.S. government need a system for internet-wide surveillance? Quoting Tiffany Olson, deputy chief of staff for the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board: "We don't have anybody that is able to look at the entire picture. When something is happening, we don't know it's happening until it's too late." (PS: The same argument applies to worldwide kitchen-table surveillance.)