Homeland Security panel picks controversial chief (proponent of TIA)

[liveoaktx]

http://news.com.com/Homeland+Security+panel+picks+controversial+chief/2100-7348_3-5657746.html?part=rss&tag=5657746&subj=news

WASHINGTON--A federal privacy board on Wednesday appointed a prominent champion of government data-mining as its first chairman.

The Department of Homeland Security's privacy board chose as its chairman Paul Rosenzweig, a conservative lawyer best known in technology circles for his defense of the Pentagon's Total Information Awareness project. Bowing to privacy concerns, Congress pulled the plug on the program two years ago.

Nuala O'Connor Kelly, the department's chief privacy officer, nominated Rosenzweig for the job during the group's first meeting in a downtown hotel here. Rosenzweig is a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation and a former Justice Department trial attorney.

....When Congress was considering whether to eliminate Total Information Awareness, Rosenzweig had urged members to keep it. An advocacy paper he co-authored at the time said "development of TIA can and should continue" as long as it included additional congressional oversight.

[w4rma]

1. Bad. Folks should be posting this info on *all* the pro-gun sites. (nt)

[Al-CIAda]

2. Agree -kick

[teryang]

3. The "privacy officer" nominates TIA man

Well this shows you how much they believe in privacy.

[DeepModem Mom]

4. They ALWAYS find a fox to guard the henhouse. nt

[struggle4progress]

5. kick