No, it was not. Safire made this claim but HSA mentions neither DARPA or TIA.
No, it was not. Safire made this claim but HSA mentions neither DARPA or TIA.
Actually, the Homeland Fatherland Security Act only defined the parameters of the massive data mining system that raised the ire of so many constitutionalists across the country that it had to be moved and hidden. It was convicted felon, John Poindexter, who upon being appointed, by Dubya, to oversee that project, eventually gave it the name "Total Information Awareness" (TIA). Sure, that wasn't what it was called in the legislation. But, that is the name that was given to that legislation's unholy child.
Because it was to be a Defense Department project, DARPA was the logical place for such a high tech program, within the Defense Department. Since the legislation did not directly specify DARPA as the home to what was to become the TIA project, Dubya and his RINO cronies simply moved the whole project (convicted felon management and all) from DARPA to ARDA, to make it appear that they were scrapping the project, as the public had demanded.
Because of Dubya, we will probably win the battle, by destroying Al-Qaeda, as a fighting force, but lose the war. Granted, the terrorists destroyed some buildings and killed a few thousand Americans and granted that Al-Qaeda will eventually be wiped out, as a result of Dubya's actions overseas. But since the terrorists have proven that they are willing to die, to further their cause, they must be laughing with glee, at how ultimately successful were their 2001 attacks and I'm not talking about physical destruction or deaths. Even as they hide in their caves, awaiting their fate, they must certainly be content in the knowledge that they have probably won, since under the guise of patriotism and fighting terrorism, Dubya has set into motion the wheels that will more thoroughly destroy the United States, than anything they could have ever achieved on their own, since he is systematically dismantling the one thing they could never destroy on their own - the Constitution.
Such loss of rights and liberty, under the guise of public safety, has been predicted by pundits for years, though I know of nobody who thought that it would happen under a Republican administration. Of course, it could be said that it didn't happen under a Republican administration, since Dubya is a Republican In Name Only.