But gee whiz Red, the NYTimes in the supporting quote actually quotes Poindexter has saying he is going to breakdown stovepipes. That sounds pretty unconstitutional to me -- how about you?
Admiral Poindexter, who has described the plan in public documents and speeches but declined to be interviewed, has said that the government needs to "break down the stovepipes" that separate commercial and government databases, allowing teams of intelligence agency analysts to hunt for hidden patterns of activity with powerful computers.
And don't you just have to trust the NYTimes on the following quote attributed to Poindexter. I mean who needs Freeping QUOTED context when you've gots the NYTime to tell you what to think the context is. "Find new sources of data" just gots to mean that they are going to peek at private data -- No?
NYTIME -- Poindexter -- "We must become much more efficient and more clever in the ways we find new sources of data, mine information from the new and old, generate information, make it available for analysis, convert it to knowledge, and create actionable options."