A very telling line in the Article - "The guidelines provide rigorous oversight to protect the information that we have, for authorized and narrow purposes," said Alexander Joel, Civil Liberties Protection Officer for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence"

A "guideline" is supposed to provide rigorous oversight...how many guidelines have you heard of that provide rigorous Anything? Basically the government wants to be able to Datamine every single database within their control for anything suspicious. Unfortunately the definition of "suspicious activity" can be elastic enough to be almost anything.

Occupy Wallstreet? - suspicious

Protest against Oil drilling - suspicious

Blog post criticizing NY police "stop & frisk" - suspicious

Criticize the Feds for overstepping on something - suspicious

Sad - we are sleep waking into the Total information awareness state. The terrorists attacks have worked - they have destroyed the very values that America was built on