The website for controversial and much-blogged citizen-informant program Operation
TIPS (Terrorism Information and Prevention System) has disappeared. Background
on the program is here, and the former location of a detailed webpage about
the program was here. In
Politech, Declan McCullagh writes:
It's been mysteriously deleted. I've copied it from Google's cache and mirrored
it here.
I wonder if the case of the disappearing TIPS has anything to do with the
Department of Homeland Security bill [PDF
link]:SEC. 880. PROHIBITION OF THE TERRORISM INFORMATION AND PREVENTION SYSTEM.
Any and all activities of the Federal Government to implement the proposed
component program of the Citizen Corps known as Operation TIPS (Terrorism
Information and Prevention System) are hereby prohibited.
