Monday, July 21, 2008
Post 9/11 dragnet
I have to wonder whether publishing the stories about what we CAN do, HOW we do it, and HOW we use it, is the right thing to do.
It's one thing to have the bad guys work to find these things out; but, I think it's a bad thing to just hand them that information...
It's one thing to have the bad guys work to find these things out; but, I think it's a bad thing to just hand them that information...
This is from Ellen Nakashima of the Washington Post. It's at MSNBC.com:
"The fingerprinting of detainees overseas began as ad-hoc FBI and U.S. military efforts shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. It has since grown into a government-wide push to build the world's largest database of known or suspected terrorist fingerprints. The effort is being boosted by a presidential directive signed June 5, which gave the U.S. attorney general and other cabinet officials 90 days to come up with a plan to expand the use of biometrics by, among other things, recommending categories of people to be screened beyond 'known or suspected' terrorists."
