] "I had sent my first inquiry to TSA public affairs, my
] second to (the agency's risk assessment office), but
] information has not been forthcoming," Kelly said in
] e-mail to Carol DiBattiste, the transportation security
] agency's deputy administrator, in November 2003. "This is
] particularly disturbing...We're getting better
] information from outside then we have from our own folks
] at this time."
]
] DiBattiste sounded like she was replying to a pesky
] reporter when she wrote back: "TSA Public Affairs has no
] information in response to your request."
]
] How fitting, then, that DiBattiste landed a plum
] $500,000-a-year job last month with privacy-impaired
] company ChoicePoint. (Remember this figure the next time
] you hear about purportedly underpaid government
] bureaucrats.)

More solid reporting from Declan McCullagh on the DHS "privacy" office. So the deputy administrator of the TSA goes to work for ChoicePoint with a big ass salary? I'd say identity theft is the least of our worries. There seems to be an unhealth professional network going on here between cops, spyware companies, and profiling companies. This is the clique that will create the thought crime/pre crime machines.

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