Editing Total Information Awareness (section)

=== Congressional restrictions and termination===
On 24 January 2003, the [[United States Senate]] voted to limit TIA by restricting its ability to gather information from emails and the commercial databases of health, financial and travel companies.<ref>{{cite news|last=ADAM CLYMER|title=Senate Rejects Privacy Project|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/24/politics/24PRIV.html|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=7 December 2013|date=January 24, 2003}}</ref> According to the ''Consolidated Appropriations Resolution, 2003, Pub. L. No. 108-7, Division M, § 111(b)'' passed in February, the Defense Department was given 90 days to compile a report laying out a schedule of TIA's development and the intended use of allotted funds or face a cutoff of support.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-108publ7/html/PLAW-108publ7.htm| title = Joint Resolution| date = February 2003| website = www.gpo.gov| publisher = [[United States Government Publishing Office]]| access-date = 7 June 2016}}</ref>

The report arrived on May 20. It disclosed that the program's computer tools were still in their preliminary testing phase. Concerning the pattern recognition of transaction information, only synthetic data created by researchers was being processed. The report also conceded that a full prototype of TIA would not be ready until the 2007 fiscal year.<ref name= congress/> Also in May, Total Information Awareness was renamed '''Terrorism Information Awareness''' in an attempt to stem the flow of criticism on its information-gathering practices on average citizens.<ref name= snowden>{{cite web| url = http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB436/| title = The Snowden Affair| last = Richelson| first = Jeffrey T.| date = 4 September 2013| website = nsarchive.gwu.edu| publisher = [[National Security Archive]]| access-date = 9 June 2016}}</ref>

At some point in early 2003, the [[National Security Agency]] began installing access nodes on TIA's classified network.<ref name= shorrock/> The NSA then started running stacks of emails and intercepted communications through TIA's various programs.<ref name= bamford/>

Following a scandal in the Department of Defense involving a [[Policy Analysis Market|proposal]] to reward investors who predicted terrorist attacks, Poindexter resigned from office on 29 August.<ref name= bamford>{{cite book| last = Bamford| first = James| title = The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America| publisher = Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | date = 14 October 2008| url = https://archive.org/details/shadowfactory00bamf| url-access = registration| isbn = 9780385528399}}</ref>

On September 30, 2003, Congress officially cut off TIA's funding and the Information Awareness Office (with the Senate voting unanimously against it)<ref>{{cite book| last = Solove| first = Daniel J.| title = Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff Between Privacy and Security| publisher = Yale University Press| date = 2011| url = https://archive.org/details/nothing_sol_2011_00_0769| url-access = registration| isbn = 9780300177251}}</ref> because of its unpopular perception by the general public and the media.<ref name="washtimes1"/><ref name= donohue258>{{cite book| last = Donohue| first = Laura K.| title = The Cost of Counterterrorism: Power, Politics, and Liberty| publisher = Cambridge University Press| date = 14 April 2008| pages = 258| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=QpVVPtzu1LUC| isbn = 9781139469579}}</ref> Senators [[Ron Wyden]] and [[Byron Dorgan]] led the effort.<ref name= schmitt>{{cite news| last= Eric| first= Schmitt| date= 1 August 2003| title= Poindexter Will Be Quitting Over Terrorism Betting Plan| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/01/politics/01POIN.html| newspaper = [[New York Times]]| location = Washington D.C.| access-date = 10 June 2016}}</ref>