DARPA Paranoia (Score 1)

Periodically, we hear fearful reports about the nefarious schemings of DARPA and the government. Having actually read through the publically available DARPA budget, it is purcuing research that could be construed as far more threatening to civil liberties than those so far published. Take for instance TIA. This is not a stand alone program. It would form the underlying foundation/statistical database for an complex system that could identify terrorists(through an optical recognition interface) in a crowd of people through tell-tale characteristics. How useful would that be in Iraq right now?