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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush

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To: TigerPaw who wrote (17067)11/22/2002 1:04:15 PM
From: Mighty_Mezz  Read Replies (1) of 93284
 
Pentagon to track all citizens' consumer purchases

A massive database that the US government will use to monitor every purchase made by every American citizen is a necessary tool in the so-called "war on terror", the Pentagon said Wednesday. Edward Aldridge, undersecretary of Acquisitions and Technology, told reporters that the Pentagon is developing a prototype database to seek "patterns indicative of terrorist activity." Aldridge said the database would collect and use software to analyze consumer purchases in hopes of catching suspects.
Fox News [US], 21 November 2002
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