We’ve all boggled at the new eye-in-the-pyramid logo of DARPA’s Information Awareness Office, that jolly entity charged with compiling and coordinating those upcoming electronic dossiers on all our lives. Under, of course, the direction of convicted criminal Vice-Admiral John M. Poindexter.

Elton Beard actually read all the small type on the IAO’s web page, and notes that, listed among among the terrorist-fighting “technologies” the IAO plans to deploy, we find “story telling, change detection, and truth maintenance.”

As Beard observes:

The news media has provided this service to the administration pretty reliably for some time now, but maybe they’re ready to cut out the middleman.

Just to save him the effort of pointing it out himself: yes, Jim Henley was all over this story months ago, and did you listen? So was the much-abused Guardian, back at the time of Poindexter’s appointment, when John Sutherland raised an eyebrow at the remarkable coincidence between the national terror alert of last February 13 and the quiet appointment of the Vice-Admiral on the same day. Of course, nobody would ever have planned things that way, and Guardian columnists just suggest things like that because they hate America. Moreover, none of your opinions have ever been fed you by experts in “story telling, change detection, and truth maintenance.” [11:05 AM]