Both Bush and Obama administrations saw IT progress as the chief counterterrorism response

Evidence

During the sixteen years of the Bush and Obama administrations, “progress in information technology” was understood as the “most effective response” to threat. Peter Swire observes that public officials “know that the private sector is developing many new techniques for collecting and processing data and making decisions based on that data.” The consequence is “a large and ongoing shift toward information-intensive strategies” that avail themselves of these market capabilities. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1229

Categorization

• XREF: Links to the reader’s platform-surveillance thread as a continuous fact of both administrations, not a partisan policy.