Book Review: ‘Means of Control’ charts the disturbing rise of a secretive US surveillance regime

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In the aftermath of the 9/11 terror attacks, former national security advisor John Poindexter launched Total Information Awareness, intent on preventing future assaults on the homeland by amassing extensive databases on people and their movements. Is it too late to invest in Nvidia? | Smart Investing CC Share Subtitles Off English view video Is it too late to invest in Nvidia? | Smart Investing The Pentagon program had a creepy eye-surveilling-the-globe-from-a-pyramid logo and was roundly rejected by civil libertarians as Orwellian overkill. Adm. Poindexter, an Iran-Contra conspirator, was skewered by late-night talk show hosts and Congressional resistance moved to defund...