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   Operation TIPS, administered by the U.S. 25-Jul-02 sanomanchhe


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sanomanchhe Posted on 25-Jul-02 06:18 AM

Operation TIPS, administered by the U.S. Department of Justice and developed in partnership with several other federal agencies, is one of the five component programs of the Citizen Corps. Operation TIPS will be a national system for reporting suspicious, and potentially terrorist-related activity. The program will involve the millions of American workers who, in the daily course of their work, are in a unique position to see potentially unusual or suspicious activity in public places......(find more in following site)
http://www.citizencorps.gov/tips.html

But there is already a strong opposition:
Terrorism Information and Prevention System, or TIPS. The Bush administration plans to enlist millions of Americans to spy on their fellow Americans, and to feed that information into a centralized database. This ill-considered domestic spying program should be stopped before it starts....(find more on)
http://www.iht.com/articles/65614.html

Is this a concern for us?