Opposition growing to the DOD's Total Information Awareness program
Congressmen and public interest groups are part of the growing opposition to the domestic antiterrorism surveillance program being developed by the Defense Department headed by Reagan's national security advisor, John Poindexter, according to this New York Times story (registration required):
The program, known as
Total Information Awareness, would mine the databases of American telephone, financial and travel companies, retailers and other concerns for patterns that suggest terrorist activity....The groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union and the American Conservative Union, said the surveillance program "would put the details of Americans' daily lives under the scrutiny of government agents, opening the door to a massive domestic surveillance system." The letter urged that Congress stop the system or at least delay it for "a closer look."