pretty much for the reasons I suggested myself last week. Michael Scardaville writes in NRO:
Even if they wanted to, TIA employees simply won’t have time to monitor who plays football pools, who has asthma, who surfs what websites, or even who deals cocaine or steals cars. They’ll begin with intelligence reports about people already suspected of terrorism, according to Ted Senator, project director of a component of TIA.
Read the whole thing.
My biggest question is about denying access to the database for unscrupulous purposes, and frankly I hope Oracle — IMHO one of the most unscrupulous companies around — has absolutely nothing to do with this project.