History Revised? Operation TIPS website vanishes

By at 11:30 am Wednesday, Nov 20

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.

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