his article, "Federal Agencies Link, Share Databases," John Monroe said:
*
* Law enforcement agencies across the federal government have poured
* money into information technology programs. According to the Government
* Market Services Division, federal agencies will spend 5.5 billion
* dollars on law enforcement technology between 1995 and 1999...
*
* The common link between in these programs is to build an information
* substructu A WEB OF CONNECTED DATABASES AND HIGH SPEED NETWORKS
* THAT WILL MAKE DATA INSTANTLY AVAILABLE TO FEDERAL, STATE, AND LOCAL
* LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS.
*
* The federal government's goal is to BRING RANDOM PIECES OF DATA
* TOGETHER TO GET A MORE COMPLETE PICTURE---WHAT SOME CALL INTELLIGENCE.

Wow. All federal agencies will be linked together in a vast intelligence
network. Handheld fingerprint devices will be deployed. Obviously.

They are working around the limitations Congress wanted on NCIC 2000.

And how much hardware is a handheld fingerprint device?

* "Lucent in New Identification Joint Venture"
* The New York Times, 5/22/