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Outcry scuttles TIPS spy program. (Insider Report).
Official Washington responded to 9-11 with an avalanche of frightful police-state proposals. One of the most chilling was when the Bush administration announced a new federal program called Operation TIPS (Terrorism Information and Prevention System). The Orwellian program called for recruiting millions of workers, from truck drivers to teachers to utility employees, to spy on their fellow citizens and report suspicious activities to the federal government. The new federal informant network was to be part of the administration's Citizen Corps program, and was scheduled to start in 10 U.S. cities in August of 2002. However, public opposition caused officials to postpone the program ...
- Planned volunteer-informant corps elicits '1984' fears; Accessing private homes...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times July 16, 2002 700+ words
...government informants. The Terrorism Information and Prevention System (Operation TIPS), a national reporting...Management Agency. Operation TIPS is one part of President...answering questions about Operation TIPS was out of the office...
- Operation TIPS; Who thought up this horror?(NEWS)(Editorial)
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) August 2, 2002 700+ words
...Citizen Corps program called Operation TIPS (Terrorism Information and Prevention System...indicate an interest in Operation TIPS. Within minutes you get...that today, even though Operation TIPS was explicitly prohibited...
- Postal Service declines offer to join homeland security plan Operation...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Furtado, Cassio July 17, 2002 700+ words
...Arab-Americans. Called Operation TIPS, for Terrorism Information and Prevention System...spokeswoman Sue Brennan. Operation TIPS is a reporting system...authorities," Comstock said. Operation TIPS will be a part of Citizen...
- Controversial Operation TIPS appears dead.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Furtado, Cassio July 27, 2002 700+ words
...Saturday by the House of Representatives appears to kill Operation TIPS, the administration's controversial effort to encourage...295-132 vote, prohibits programs such as the proposed Terrorism Information and Prevention System. TIPS was part of President Bush...
- Concern grows as Bush Administration proposes to use city workers in...
- Newspaper article from: Nation's Cities Weekly Pluviose-Fenton, Veronique August 12, 2002 700+ words
...Administration plans to unveil a new initiative called Operation Terrorism Information and Prevention System (TIPS). TIPS is described as...were wearing." Ashcroft tried to assure senators that Operation TIPS would only be a clearinghouse, with all relevant information...
- Love thy neighbor, but keep your eye on 'em.(LETTERS)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times July 17, 2002 700+ words
...between President Bush's proposed Terrorism Information and Prevention System (Operation TIPS) and George Orwell's book "1984...and the Soviet Union. In contrast, Operation TIPS is an appeal to civilians to be on the...
- In its first opinion revealed to the public since its debut in 1979, the...
- Magazine article from: Consumers' Research Magazine Condon, Erin C. September 1, 2002 700+ words
...utility workers, and others with access to private homes in the war on terrorism. The Terrorism Information and Prevention System, or Operation TIPS, received criticism from civil liberties groups and lawmakers who viewed it as a "citizen...
- 'We are safer than we were a year ago'; New laws, equipment, vigilance make...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times September 11, 2002 700+ words
...workers. Rep. Bob Barr, Georgia Republican, rallied against the Justice Department's Terrorism Information and Prevention System, or Operation TIPS, calling it "the very type of fascist or communist government we fought so hard to eradicate...