I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor.

I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor.
John Poindexter

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Nobody - myself included - believes that we could ever achieve total information awareness. But the government needs to set goals and long-range objectives. Total information awareness is a good goal.
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TIA was being used by real users, working on real data - foreign data. Data where privacy is not an issue.
- John Poindexter

I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor. John Poindexter

I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor.
John Poindexter