I knew from the beginning that privacy was going to be a huge issue, especially with regard to … - John Poindexter

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John Poindexter

I knew from the beginning that privacy was going to be a huge issue, especially with regard to applying Total Information Awareness in counterterrorism. Because if the technology development was successful, a logical place to apply it was inside the United States.

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I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.

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One of the reasons I continue to speak out is that the solutions to the counterterrorism problem involve other parts of the national security community - especially other elements of the Department of Defense, State, FBI, Homeland Security and the staff.

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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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It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that.

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

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