'Rick Perry's Intelligence Overreach'

A reporter from Mother Jones contacted Grits recently with questions about Governor Perry's record on the TDEX database, which is Texas' homegrown version of the nixed "Total Information Awareness" initiative promoted by Adm. John Poindexter during the Bush II Administration. The resulting story, with the same title as this post, may be found here.

See related Grits posts:

• DPS spending millions on TDEX databases while drivers license lines lengthen
• The case of the missing data
• DPS: Open criminal case data given to Northrop Grunman, never given back
• Don't do it! Perry moves to consolidate intelligence gathering in Governor's office
• Farrar: HB 13 won't secure border, risks letting political concerns interfere with law enforcement
• Bad Big Brother bill just won't die
• The Governor's Great Border Security Power Grab
• Biometrics slope got slippery mighty quick