Futures sugli attentati: il Pentagono ci ripensa

Così News.com - New York Times online:

The Pentagon office that proposed spying electronically on Americans to monitor potential terrorists has quickly abandoned an idea in which anonymous speculators would have bet on forecasting terrorist attacks, assassinations and coups in an online futures market. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz said Tuesday that the program would be dropped. And he asserted that he first learned of the Pentagon-sanctioned futures market through news accounts today after two Democratic senators disclosed the concept on Monday.

"I share your shock at this kind of program," Wolfowitz told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "We'll find out about it, but it is being terminated."



Sen. John W. Warner, the Virginia Republican who heads the Senate Armed Services Committee, said today that he had conferred with the program's director at the Pentagon, "and we mutually agreed that this thing should be stopped."

The discarded program was met with astonishment and derision almost from the moment it was disclosed.

Bene, almeno per questa volta i militari si sono visti togliere il giocattolo dalle mani...



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