Budget proposes "Screening Coordination" office
Washington Post
02/09/05
The Bush budget calls for the Department of Homeland Security to create an office called Screening Coordination and Operations that would absorb some programs of TSA and other divisions. The office would oversee records on millions of Americans and foreigners in vast databases that contain digital fingerprints and photographs, eye scans and personal information from travelers and transportation workers
.... Government officials want to explore whether a program designed to vet the backgrounds of airline passengers, for example, would work for screening travelers using other modes of transportation." [Post articles may require registration, or use login "info@news-digests.com/news-digests"]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9089-2005Feb8.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
02/09/05
The Bush budget calls for the Department of Homeland Security to create an office called Screening Coordination and Operations that would absorb some programs of TSA and other divisions. The office would oversee records on millions of Americans and foreigners in vast databases that contain digital fingerprints and photographs, eye scans and personal information from travelers and transportation workers
.... Government officials want to explore whether a program designed to vet the backgrounds of airline passengers, for example, would work for screening travelers using other modes of transportation." [Post articles may require registration, or use login "info@news-digests.com/news-digests"]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9089-2005Feb8.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 11. Feb, 13:04
