“Surely, such a threat should be met with intelligence gathering of the highest quality — not by putting the question to individuals betting onan Internet website. …Spending taxpayer dollars to create terrorism betting parlors is as wasteful as it is repugnant,” they added.

> From a letter written by Senators Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) to Adm. John Poindexter, who leads the section of DARPA developing the Policy Analysis Market.