{"id":115,"date":"2003-01-25T18:03:04","date_gmt":"2003-01-25T18:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=115"},"modified":"2003-01-25T18:03:04","modified_gmt":"2003-01-25T18:03:04","slug":"no-funding-for-tia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/115","title":{"rendered":"No funding for TIA."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Awesome.  On Thursday, the U.S. Senate voted to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/politics\/0,1283,57386,00.html\">block funding for the Pentagon&#8217;s Total Information Awareness project<\/a>.  It&#8217;s not dead yet &#150; the project is only being financially blocked until the Pentagon &#8220;explains the program and assesses its impact on civil liberties&#8221; &#150; but it&#8217;s nice to know that at least <i>some<\/i> people in Washington are standing up against this post-9\/11 civil liberties bonfire.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Related joke: the Total Information Awareness project was originally known as the Total <i>Knowledge<\/i> Awareness project, until someone pointed out that the President kept referring to it excitedly as the T N&#8217; A project.  Ba-doom-boom.  Thank you, thank you, I&#8217;m here all week.  The 7 o&#8217;clock show is completely different from the 9 o&#8217;clock show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awesome. On Thursday, the U.S. Senate voted to block funding for the Pentagon&#8217;s Total Information Awareness project. It&#8217;s not dead yet &#150; the project is only being financially blocked until the Pentagon &#8220;explains the program and assesses its impact on civil liberties&#8221; &#150; but it&#8217;s nice to know that at least some people in Washington [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-voice-tip-of-the-quill"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-1R","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}