Operation TIPS, 2002: US Planning to Recruit 1 in 24 Americans as Citizen Spies

As reported in the Sydney Morning Herald, 2002:

The Bush Administration aims to recruit millions of United States citizens as domestic informants … 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. The program would use a minimum of 4 per cent of Americans to report “suspicious activity”.

“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. Letter carriers, utility employees, truck drivers and train conductors are among those named as targeted recruits.”

“A pilot program .. is scheduled to start next month in 10 cities, with 1 million informants participating in the first stage.”

2002: US planning to recruit 1 in 24 Americans as citizen spies -Sydney Morning Herald
Civil liberties groups have already warned that, with the passage earlier this year of the Patriot Act, there is potential for abusive, large-scale investigations of US citizens.
An American Stasi – Reason.com
TIPS in essence deputizes 1 million Americans in 10 cities as government informants. (That’s just the beginning for its August debut — the program will be expanded next year.) These TIPS soldiers have been given the mission to go where the police can’t necessarily go, see what the police can’t necessarily see.

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