Can Data Mining Catch Terrorists?
When Gen. Michael Hayden faced Congress last week for a pre-confirmation grilling as President Bush’s nominee to lead the Central Intelligence Agency, he started by calling intelligence gathering “the football in American political discourse” since the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Then, when pressed about a megadatabase of phone records of U.S. citizens allegedly compiled under his watch at the National Security Agency, Hayden punted. Full Story