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b_b  ·  4241 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: So what's the point of a watch list then?

Good point. Maybe the NSA should start sponsoring graduate and postdoc fellowships for information processing and informatics research. I'm sure they could do it clandestinely through some shadow organization. Hell, maybe they already do. Obviously, having a bunch of data is useless if you don't know what to do with it (see Obama's BRAIN initiative for a great example of another policy of this sort).