rule in the name of a supposed greater good.
In March 2002, John M. Poindexter, a former national security adviser to President Ronald Reagan,
sat down with Gen. Michael ... Hayden, the director of the National Security Agency. Mr. Poindexter
sketched out a new Pentagon program called Total Information Awareness, that proposed to scan the
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world's electronic information ... N.S.A., the government's chief
eavesdropper, routinely collected and analyzed such signals, so Mr. Poindexter thought the agency was
an obvious place to test his ideas.
He never had much