The brilliance of WaPo continues unabated.

From a recent online chat with Dana Priest on 5/11/06:

Anonymous: Dana - How does the NSA data "drift net" that
was exposed today differ from the Total Information Awareness (TIA) program led
by Poindexter that was supposedly disbanded? Did the Pentagon just continue the
program under a different name?

Dana Priest: That's a possibility. We don't know yet.

From Newsweek, 2/8/06:

Yet today, very quietly, the core of TIA survives with a new codename of
Topsail (minus the futures market), two officials privy to the intelligence
tell NEWSWEEK.

Of course, those who read liberal blogs already knew that, since Rumsfeld openly bragged about how they were going to keep TIA going under the radar, and all that.

Remind me again how Dana Priest earns her paycheck? Isn't a journalist supposed to know all about big, controversial front-page issues?