The whole Operation TIPS thing was never anything more than a proposal, and a misguided one at that. Redirecting phone calls to America's Most Wanted? What a joke. I doubt that this ever had support from top management, it sounds more like an effort by an over-enthusiastic and under-competent mid level bureaucrat.

So it's no wonder that they canned the web site, the program never was put into operation. They shouldn't have created the site in the first place, but that was just another sign of incompetence.

What's odd is the images and links still work...apparently there's a sister program "Citizen Corps" http://www.citizencorps.gov/ -- was TIPS always a subset program of Citizen Corps, or is this a way of getting around that posted anti-TIPS bit in the homeland security bill?

kis- re-read the Prohibition. Yes, citizen corps is a real thing (e.g. Neighborhood Watch and CERTs) TIPS was a component of the corps.

Sounds very practical to me. With "Total Information Awareness", who needs TIPS? Why bank on unreliable common citizens when you can bully what you need out of VISA or Safeway?