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US gov's 'ultimate database' run by a felon

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/28107.html

US gov's 'ultimate database' run by a felon

By Thomas C Greene in Washington

Posted: 14/11/2002 at 20:22 GMT

We all know that truth is stranger than fiction, and here we have an apparently real item straight from the realm of Tom Clancy. Imagine a huge, absolutely huge, central database containing both the official and commercial data of every single citizen, run by the US military ostensibly for anti-terror and Homeland Security purposes, and all of it under the direction of a convicted felon.

Well the database is in development and coming soon, according to the New York Times; and the felon who will run it is disgraced Reagan administration liar, dirty-trickster and cover-uper Admiral John M. Poindexter, who Dubya has taken out of mothballs to keep us all safe from dreadful evildoers.

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