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	The Memory Hole > Website for Operation TIPS Quietly Changes
		Operation TIPS is now being presented as an elite program created by government and industry rather than as a citizen-snitch program that people can join to spy on their neighbors.
		Operation TIPS, involving 1 million workers in the pilot stage, will be a national reporting system that allows these workers, whose routines make them well-positioned to recognize unusual events, to report suspicious activity.
		Operation TIPS, administered by the U.S. Department of Justice and developed in partnership with several other federal agencies, is one of the five component programs of the Citizen Corps.
	www.thememoryhole.org /policestate/tips-changes.htm (695 words)

	Operation TIPS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Operation TIPS, the Terrorism Information and Prevention System, was designed by President George W. Bush to have United States citizens report suspicious activity.
		Operation TIPS was accused of doing an "end run" around the United States Constitution.
		While saying that the information would not be in a central database as part of Operation TIPS, he maintained that the information would still be kept in databases by various law enforcement agencies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Operation_TIPS (364 words)

	#405: 07-16-02 STATEMENT OF BARBARA COMSTOCK, DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, REGARDING THE TIPS PROGRAM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Operation TIPS reporting system was announced in concept six months ago, and we look forward to its rollout in the late summer or early fall.
		Operation TIPS is that voluntary reporting system through which information can be maintained and analyzed in a single database, and will be referred to local, state and federal law enforcement agencies for appropriate follow-up.
		Our interest in establishing the Operation TIPS program is to allow American workers to share information they receive in the regular course of their jobs in public places and areas.
	www.usdoj.gov /opa/pr/2002/July/02_ag_405.htm (361 words)

	CNN.com - Postal Service snubs Operation TIPS - July 18, 2002
		The program, named Operation TIPS, is called "a national reporting system that allows these workers, whose routines make them well-positioned to recognize unusual events, to report suspicious activity," according to a description posted on a government Web site.
		Operation TIPS has been the subject of intense criticism in the days since it was made public.
		A pilot stage of Operation TIPS is scheduled to launch either in late summer or early fall.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/US/07/17/usps.operation.tip/index.html (432 words)

	Operation TIPS: Bush plan to recruit 1 million domestic spies
		TIPS spies could be expected to take note of “subversive” titles on residents’ bookshelves.
		The proposal for Operation TIPS has provoked no objections from the leadership of unions whose members would be potential informants.
		Whatever the immediate fate of Operation TIPS, the plan serves as a chilling warning of the police-state methods being adopted by the political establishment.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2002/jul2002/tips-j22.shtml (1065 words)

	CWA Applauds Senate Action to Ban Operation TIPS
		Operation TIPS, the controversial "citizen spy" program the Bush administration sought to include in its homeland security measure, has been stripped from the Homeland Security Act thanks to hard work by CWA and the strong support of Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.).
		TIPS - the Terrorism Information and Prevention System - called for millions of telephone, utility and other workers who interact daily with the public to become government snitches, spying on and reporting the activities of ordinary citizens.
		In an executive board statement, CWA said the TIPS proposal "strikes at the heart of privacy" and was "reminiscent of the worst features of Nazi Germany," where workers and neighbors were encouraged to spy on each other.
	www.cwa-union.org /news/cwa-news/page.jsp?itemID=27372584 (216 words)

	Operation SantaClaus tips and advice
		Operation Santa Claus is an incredible and very worthy organization that depends entirely upon the goodwill of volunteers.
		Operation Santa Claus had its informal start during the 1920s when New York City postal employees pooled their own money to buy gifts for poor children whose letters to Santa ended up in the dead-letter box.
		This year Operation Santa Claus may be available at your local post office so please check with your postmaster to find out where you can get Dear Santa letters.
	www.operationlettertosanta.com /Pages/santa_tips.htm (989 words)

	Operation TIPS - Terrorism Information and Prevention System
		Operation TIPS - Terrorism Information and Prevention System - drew prompt criticism from civil rights advocates, forcing government officials to deny that it would result in Americans spying on each other.
		Operation TIPS is a part of the Citizen Corps, an initiative announced by President Bush in his State of the Union address.
		TIPS Application Form in PDF format so you can serve der Fuhrer and feel real important.
	www.dojgov.net /TIPS-01.htm (925 words)

	WorkingForChange-Spying eyes
		Operation TIPS (the Terrorist Information and Prevention System) is part of President Bush's new Citizens Corps — a division of his USA Freedom Corps initiative.
		will be given an Operation TIPS information sticker to be affixed to the cab of their vehicle or placed in some other public location so that the toll-free reporting number is readily available.
		If Operation TIPS planners are true to their word and one million workers are out looking for terrorists during the course of the daily activities, local police forces could have their hands full chasing down one lead after another.
	www.workingforchange.com /article.cfm?itemid=13491 (1157 words)

	Planned Volunteer-Informant Corps Elicits '1984' Fears
		The Terrorism Information and Prevention System (Operation TIPS), a national reporting pilot program, is scheduled to start next month in 10 cities, with 1 million informants — or nearly 4 percent of Americans — initially participating in the program.
		Operation TIPS is one part of President Bush's new volunteer Citizen Corps program that urges Americans to keep their neighborhoods safe.
		She said that the organization is also worried that the program will adversely affect the fight against terrorism by wasting resources on useless tips and that the program will encourage vigilantism and racial profiling.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines02/0716-01.htm (637 words)

	Operation TIPS - Terrorist Information and Prevention System
		All it will take to volunteer is a telephone or access to the Internet as tips can be reported on the toll-free hotline or online.
		Operation TIPS is scheduled to be launched in late summer or early fall 2002.
		Operation TIPS will be phased in across the country to enable the system to build its capacity to receive an increasing volume of tips.
	www.geocities.com /actionseed/TIPS.htm (352 words)

	Operation TIPS: Terrorism and Prevention System
		Operation TIPS (Terrorism Information and Prevention System) was introduced as a program in development in January 2002.
		The program is scheduled to be operational in the fall of 2002 as one of the new Citizen Corps programs.
		Operation TIPS would offer its hotline service to workers involved in the transportation, trucking, shipping, maritime, and mass transit industries.
	www.prisonplanet.com /news_alert_citizencorps_tips.html (1480 words)

	t r u t h o u t - Nat Hentoff \| The Death of Operation TIPS, Volunteer Spying Corps Dismissed
		When the Homeland Security Act was finally signed by the president after many weeks of extensive media coverage of the congressional warfare over the bill, I saw nothing of the most significant result of it all--the decision to ban what had been a key provision.
		Democratic senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont had tried months ago to get Operation TIPS out of the Senate version of the bill, but Joe Lieberman, chair of the Governmental Affairs Committee, ignored his letter asking for the killing of the nationwide governmental surveillance program.
		Operation TIPS had previously been stricken from the House Homeland Security bill by then majority leader Dick Armey, who was angered by the Justice Department's plan to enlist millions of Americans to report any suspicious signs that might link some of the rest of us to terrorism.
	www.truthout.org /docs_02/12.19F.hentoff.tips.htm (955 words)

	OPERATION TIPS NEWS \| HavenWorks.com/gov/operation-tips - TIPS: Terrorism Information and Prevention System
		Civil libertarians are outraged by the plan to privatize the operation.
		Volunteers for Operation TIPS, John Ashcroft's citizen spy army, are being steered to the Fox crime show "America's Most Wanted." Is the merger of tabloid TV with the federal snooping operation funny or scary or both?"...
		"Amid growing concern over Operation TIPS, Ashcroft sought to assure members of the Senate Judiciary Committee July 25 that reports of suspicious activity will not be retained in a central database, but he said some reports may be kept in databases maintained by various law enforcement agencies."...
	www.havenworks.com /gov/operation-tips (1884 words)

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	www.3dcadtips.com /tips/Boolean_Operation_Tips.htm (425 words)

	Wired News: Feds' Spying Plan Fades to Black
		First announced by the Justice Department in January, Operation TIPS (Terrorism Information and Prevention System), was initially designed as a nationwide reporting system that would enlist one million workers -– ranging from postal employees to truck drivers –- to tattle on any "suspicious activity" by people along their routes.
		Some likened TIPS to an operative of the East German Stasi, the secret police that used citizen informants to spy on ordinary Germans for more than 40 years.
		News of TIPS' demise has been buried in the deluge of stories arising from the law's passage, including a provision that makes it easier for Internet Service Providers to disclose suspicious activity on their networks to authorities.
	www.wired.com /news/politics/0,1283,56701,00.html (612 words)

	Peace Corps Online \| November 13, 2002 - ACLU: Operation TIPS Rejected By Congress in New Homeland Security Bill
		PCOL has previously highlighted the fact that not only would the proposed TIPS program turn neighbors into government spies but that the TIPS program was slated to be under the USA Freedom Corps, the umbrella agency that includes the Peace Corps and thus create a connection between the Peace Corps and intelligence gathering activities.
		Opposition to TIPS came from both the left and right of the political spectrum and was championed by both strict constitutionalists like outgoing House Majority Leader Dick Armey and by the citizens concerned about attacks on American's civil liberties like the ACLU.
		Operation TIPS, as proposed by the Department of Justice, sought to actively recruit a network of government informants among utility workers, cable technicians or anyone else whose jobs grant them easy access to private homes.
	www.peacecorpsonline.org /messages/messages/2629/1010708.html (1233 words)

	New life for Operation TIPS - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Scarcely two weeks after the Justice Department was found to be referring volunteers in its Operation TIPS domestic-spy program to Fox TV's "America's Most Wanted" crime hotline, Attorney General John Ashcroft is making plans to farm out the TIPS hotline to a different private organization.
		"It doesn't resolve any of the concerns that have been expressed about TIPS and instead creates dozens of new ones." She notes that a private hotline not run by the federal government would be free of congressional oversight, and would not need to follow federal guidelines regarding the gathering or holding of personal data.
		But asked what the department planned to do with taped calls about "suspicious behavior" reported by TIPS volunteers calling into the hotline, she conceded that she didn't know how the material would be handled.
	dir.salon.com /story/news/feature/2002/08/30/tips/index_np.html (768 words)

	US planning to recruit one in 24 Americans as citizen spies - smh.com.au
		The Terrorism Information and Prevention System, or TIPS, means the US will have a higher percentage of citizen informants than the former East Germany through the infamous Stasi secret police.
		As with the Patriot Act, TIPS is being pursued as part of the so-called war against terrorism.
		Highlighting the scope of the surveillance network, TIPS volunteers are being recruited primarily from among those whose work provides access to homes, businesses or transport systems.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/07/14/1026185141232.html (569 words)

	CBS News \| Operation TIPS Trips Up? \| August 8, 2002 21:34:25
		Under "Operation TIPS", transportation workers, utility crews and letter carriers could sign up to snoop on members of their communities.
		But Lindorff found confusion when a Justice Department switchboard operator gave him a TIPS number that turned out to be for a television program.
		Operation Tips, a Bush administration plan to have mail carriers and other workers spy on their communities, is drawing fire from civil libertarians and law enforcement experts, reports Bob Orr.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2002/08/08/national/main518088.shtml (540 words)

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	www.operationgadget.com /2003/11/send_your_gadge.html (268 words)

	Disaster Relief Tips - Operation Blessing International
		Operation Blessing encourages you and your family to act now to prepare, before disaster strikes.
		Additional ways to ensure you and your family are ready for disaster include making a family disaster plan and building a disaster supplies kit.
		Operation Blessing is a non-profit 501 (c) (3).
	www.ob.org /programs/disaster_relief/tips.asp (203 words)

	ACLU: Operation TIPS Breeds Peeping Toms - News
		Operation TIPS -- Terrorism Information and Prevention System -- is being developed by the Justice Department, according to a notice on the department's website.
		The ACLU said it worried that these volunteers would, in effect, be searching people's homes without a warrant, that resources would be wasted on a flood of useless tips and that the program would encourage vigilantism and racial profiling.
		The planned operation is a part of the Citizen Corps, an initiative announced by President Bush in his State of the Union address, designed to enable the public to participate directly in homeland security.
	www.thekansascitychannel.com /news/1561727/detail.html (395 words)

	Operation TIPS alive and well in Virginia :: UnderReported.com :: Surprising stories from the media and primary sources
		Operation TIPS alive and well in Virginia :: UnderReported.com :: Surprising stories from the media and primary sources
		Note only is this not provided, but the links associated with the phone number are either broken or not relevant to terrorism.
		Re: Re: Operation TIPS alive and well in Virginia
	www.prisonplanet.com /operation_tips_alive_and_well_in_virginia.html (822 words)

	The Memory Hole > Operation TIPS Website Deleted
		Section 808 of the act, which became federal law, states: "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." (Of course, this doesn't prohibit a similar program with a different name from being created.)
		Below you'll find archived versions of the main Webpage for TIPS, as well as other Citizen Corps Webpages that used to refer to TIPS but no longer do.
		We've also stored copies of the two TIPS newsletters, which strangely remain on the site but are prime candidates for deletion.
	www.thememoryhole.org /policestate/tips-deleted.htm (222 words)

	pseudorandom: "Operation TIPS... is Utterly Anti-American"
		Ashcroft's informant corps is a vile idea not merely because it violates civil liberties in a narrow legal sense or because it will sabotage genuine efforts to prevent terrorism by overloading law enforcement officials with irrelevant reports about Americans who have nothing to do with terrorists.
		Operation TIPS should be stopped because it is utterly anti-American.
		I wouldn't go quite as far as the Globe, but I'm glad to see that TIPS won't get a free pass.
	www.boosman.com /blog/2002/07/operation_tips_is_utterly_anti.html (236 words)

	Wired News: Convoy for Homeland Security
		Operators there then patch routine calls about unsafe traffic conditions or an accident directly to local authorities and dispatchers.
		Lee Tien of the Electronic Frontier Foundation called the program "TIPS for Truckers," referring to the widely maligned Operation TIPS program that was proposed by the Justice Department in 2002.
		Willard says comparing Highway Watch to TIPS is "irrelevant." "Drivers are in sole possession of their load the vast majority of the (time) so there is really no way of addressing terrorism and trucking without the participation of the truck driver," Willard said.
	www.wired.com /news/technology/0,1282,65007,00.html (771 words)

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