6 January 2002 - information dominance

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Wolfowitz: John, a classified NSA report crossed my desk that I think you should see. Here.
Ashcroft: Hmm... information dominance... commercial sector... covert monitoring.... But this is explosive! Paul, can it be true?
Wolfowitz: I think so. The advertising industry knows more secrets about Americans than the government does.
Ashcroft: This will not stand. We must co-opt that data. Flunky, get me the president!

clue:

Dramatis Personae

Paul Wolfowitz, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense
John Ashcroft, U.S. Attorney General
Flunky, a flunky

give me a clue so sweet and true

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