Codename: Basketball

So your invasive anti-terrorism program is being shot down by lawmakers because people had a problem with the whole...total invasion of privacy and violation of rights thing. Do you clean out your desk and get a job with Disney?

No, you change the name of the program (something innocous...), and pick up right where you left off: Nose deep in people's personal information.

from the National Journal article:

Research under the Defense Department's Total Information Awareness program -- which developed technologies to predict terrorist attacks by mining government databases and the personal records of people in the United States -- was moved from the Pentagon's research-and-development agency to another group, which builds technologies primarily for the National Security Agency, according to documents obtained by National Journal and to intelligence sources familiar with the move. The names of key projects were changed, apparently to conceal their identities, but their funding remained intact, often under the same contracts.

It is no secret that some parts of TIA lived on behind the veil of the classified intelligence budget. However, the projects that moved, their new code names, and the agencies that took them over haven't previously been disclosed. Sources aware of the transfers declined to speak on the record for this story because, they said, the identities of the specific programs are classified.