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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

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" 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. "

John Poindexter

" 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. "

John Poindexter

" You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives. "

John Poindexter

" We wanted to be as expansive as possible to make sure we didn't preclude some good ideas. "

John Poindexter

" 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. "

John Poindexter

" Uncontrolled access to data, with no audit trail of activity and no oversight would be going too far. This applies to both commercial and government use of data about people. "

John Poindexter

" I think if I had to do it over again, I'd do it the same way. I would just put more resources into getting the public diplomacy part much stronger than we were able to. "

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

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

John Poindexter

" 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. "

John Poindexter