This report is consistent with DoJ's advocacy of a US national, as well as international, system for police agencies to collect and share criminal justice information, and to do so while there is no law against using advanced technology for this purpose. As noted here recently, see a presentation by DoJ on how to override with a PR campaign citizens' concerns with privacy violations of such systems: http://cryptome.org/doj-ji-pi.ppt This continues the transfer and use of technology developed for national security purposes to law enforcement agencies, worldwide, with the initiative being taken by DoJ and FBI, assisted and advised by DoD and the intel community (with former members of the latter now employed by domestic agencies or running companies selling natsec-derived services to domestic customers). What is fascinating about this evolution is the screaming by domestic victims when they learn that means and methods are being applied to them that they wholeheartedly approve when aimed at foreigners, immigrants, criminals and other stigmatized targets such as radicals, anarchists, commies, neo-nazis, dissidents and whoever is different from you and me, well, no doubt you include me in your bullseye and me you when we get a whiff of the terrifying scent spread by the malodor-spreading criminal justice mongerers. Nothing about this whipsawing of terror and anti-terror technology is new to this forum, but the news reports do confirm the need to keep grinding out new outlaw means and methods to defy the inlaw ("justice", crime-fighting) initiatives that just cant spend money fast enough to abrade and salve. The invention of new (advanced-tech) criminality is high on the agenda, right up there with the propagation of assurance that only governments can combat burgeoning national and economic security-threatening outlawry. What is not said, or maybe only whispered to oversighters hairy ears, is do not ask us to look into mirrors to see true outlaws agrinning. Do not ask us to conduct our affairs in non-outlaw secret settings. Turncoats are a special feature of the official outlaw cartel, when those who once faught official criminality are recruited to ID, track, provoke, gather evidence, indict and convict former associates. Read Michael Froomkin on ICANN's board members who cant forgo power- wielding: http://personal.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/boardsquat.htm This is a tip of the iceberg of large numbers of means and methods technicians being drawn into the global justice system with sweetheart contracts and jobs and places on advisory boards. To serve the national interest and to get regular whisperings from those in the know it all business. Here's a recent article on the price paid by scholars to see CIA classified material: http://cryptome.org/cia-price.htm