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| 2008-07-06 |
| In the six-and-a-half years that the U.S. government has been fingerprinting insurgents, detainees and ordinary people in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Horn of Africa, hundreds have turned out to share an unexpected background, FBI and military officials said. They have criminal arrest records in the United States. Just wait'l the ACLU finds out! There was the suspected militant fleeing Somalia who had been arrested on a drug charge in New Jersey. And the man stopped at a checkpoint in Tikrit who claimed to be a dirt farmer but had 11 felony charges in the United States, including assault with a deadly weapon. The records suggest that potential enemies abroad know a great deal about the United States because many of them have lived here, officials said. The matches also reflect the power of sharing data across agencies and even countries, data that links an identity to a distinguishing human characteristic such as a fingerprint. 'I found the number stunning,' said Frances Fragos Townsend, a security consultant and former assistant to the president for homeland security. 'It suggested to me that this was going to give us far greater insight into the relationships between individuals fighting against U.S. forces in the theater and potential U.S. cells or support networks here in the United States.' 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. |
| Posted by:Bobby |
| #3 Once again, I want to advocate the creation of US military "identity" units. When we are in a foreign country like Iraq, literally everyone we meet should give biometric information and get an ID card. The front of the card has just their picture, not even their name, and the back contains heavily encrypted, non magnetic data, that just looks like a bunch of random dots. These units would have a simple, hand held device that would take a picture, fingerprints, DNA, possibly a retinal scan and a voice print. After asking a bunch of people standard questions entered on a laptop, then that data and their biometric information would be instantly transmitted to a central database. This would not only kill enemy infiltration dead overnight, but it would make forming a new government much easier. All at once it would be a census, a ration card, a voting card, a checkpoint pass, an internal passport, criminal record, financial records, etc. Then all the military would have to do when they apprehended someone, or even killed someone, would be to use whatever biometrics, including DNA, to identify them. Instantly, we would know their name, family, tribe, religion, affiliations and associations, previous trouble, etc., etc. YES, it is "Big Brother". HELL YES, it is "Big Brother". And it saves a ton of lives, billions of dollars, and gets our troops home faster. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-07-06 13:04 |
| #2 'I found the number stunning,' said Frances Fragos Townsend, a security consultant and former assistant to the president for homeland security. She has a US Justice Dept background and holds a BA in Political Science and a BS in Psychology from the American University. Also a JD from the University of San Diego. She is a 'veteran' of the Coast Guard. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-07-06 08:40 |
| #1 "I found the number stunning," so did I! said Frances Fragos Townsend, a security consultant and former assistant to the president for homeland security. "It suggested to me that this was going to give us far greater insight into the relationships between individuals fighting against U.S. forces in the theater and potential U.S. cells or support networks here in the United States." And if you use a similar screen at the democrat convention next month, I bet you will hit the jacklpot. No wonder the ACLU was so hot to get the terrorists into the civil courts. They are their friends. I wonder what else turned up in the database mining expeditions? |
| Posted by: N guard 2008-07-06 08:19 |