FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

WASHINGTON - Responding to reports today that the Federal Bureau of Investigation hopes to experiment with the controversial cyber-surveillance program known as Total Information Awareness, the American Civil Liberties Union said that such a partnership between the military and law enforcement would be a privacy disaster waiting to happen.

"With the FBI on board, Total Information Awareness will be able to implement its e-voyeurism on a much grander - and more intrusive -- scale," said Katie Corrigan, an ACLU Legislative Counsel. "This undermines the wall between the military and domestic law enforcement, which in the past has resulted in real Americans getting hurt."

The ACLU's remarks come on the heels of reports that the Defense Department's Inspector General admitted in preliminary responses to questions from Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) that the FBI was working on a memorandum of understanding with the Pentagon "for possible experimentation" with the Total Information Awareness program.

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