• Bush may have secretly continued to operate John Poindexter's notorious "Total Information Awareness" program.
• Finger "vein scanners" are about to be rolled out for library workers in suburban Melbourne.
• The Office of the Director of National Intelligence is hiring data miners by the boatload. Job creation!
• And the Boston Globe has a great piece here on the hundreds of millions of dollars the federal government has doled out to MA state and local agencies for terrorism related equipment and training. But there's only one problem: there aren't any terrorists.