What do you have to do to stop these Neo-con Crazies?:

Remember John Poindexter's "Total Information Awareness" fiasco? Remember the concept - heavily ridiculed around the world - of a stock exchange for predicting terrorist activities? US Congress last year closed Poindexter's office and barred the agency from continuing most of his research. Poindexter was forced to quit his post.

As AP reports, however, Poindexter's pet projects did not die:

"In killing Poindexter's office, Congress quietly agreed to continue paying to develop highly specialized software to gather foreign intelligence on terrorists."