Government spookiness: Somewhere in the 2.5 terabytes (equal to about 12 percent of all printed pages held by the Library of Congress) of data Erik Kleinsmith destroyed in the spring of 2000 might have been the key to cracking al Qaeda and perhaps preventing the World Trade Center and Pentagon terrorist attacks. In a fascinating and chilling article that explores topics like the Information Dominance Center and project “Able Danger,” National Journal’s Shane Harris investigates how the military, government and intelligence services routinely tread the line between mining essental data and harvesting personal information on thousands of U.S. civilians.
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