Some of the Bush security initiatives included:


The creation of a Homeland Security Department, a cabinet level agency designed to streamline and co-ordinate the various agents of federal government bureaucracy charged with protecting the American homeland from foreign attacks.


A Total Information Awareness program that will collect information on every American into a large database. All sorts of personal data--magazine subscriptions, college transcripts, credit card purchases, and other information--will be collected on every American and used for "data mining" purposes.


The USA PATRIOT Act Which expands the government's powers of surveillance and arrest. It includes provisions for detainment without a trial, and search without a warrant. It is said to be followed up by


Creation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review[?] which gives the government authority for domestic spying.


"Project Lookout[?]", which distributes "watch lists" of people alleged to be suspicious, or have ties to terrorist groups to a variety of different organizations and institutions. These included specific "No-fly" lists[?] of American residents who should not be allowed to board any airport into or out of the United States.


"Operation TIPS", which would have created a vast network of amateur spies, in which Americans would spy on one another. This proposal was rejected after an initial outcry.



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