FL heraldtribune -- Project takes a step toward Big Brother

Imagine a policeman knocking on your door and asking to see your checkbook. Or picture a government clerk popping up to see which books you bought from Amazon.com last year.

A new military computer database network designed to mine data from both government and commercial databases may allow our government to do exactly that.

Note that he says Poindexter, the person in charge of "Total Information Awareness," had his conviction of lying under oath to Congress overturned. He was pardoned, not found not guilty. That means that his powerful Republican friends approved of his lying under oath and they are now in charge in Wahington.