DHS and John Lennon
Oct 7, 2010 | 12:39 pm
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DHS and John Lennon
Can't get the link here, but just saw on Yahoo News where the FBI seized a fingerprint card of John Lennon from a New York memorbilia shop.
The article stated that 'the DHS was interested in the card too.'
... does DHS have to do with a JL fingerprint card in a memorbilia shop?
A security issue????? Thank God I no longer pay taxes for this idiotic organization...
The article stated that 'the DHS was interested in the card too.'
... does DHS have to do with a JL fingerprint card in a memorbilia shop?
A security issue????? Thank God I no longer pay taxes for this idiotic organization...
Oct 7, 2010 | 12:49 pm
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Oct 7, 2010 | 12:52 pm
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Oct 7, 2010 | 1:01 pm
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I wonder what they'll want next...
A. Michael Jackson's ear wax
B. Billy Joel's saliva
C. Madonna's lipstick
D. A jock strap worn by Boy George
Personally, my bet is on (D). TSA has already shown that their agents have both underwear and crotch fetishes.
A. Michael Jackson's ear wax
B. Billy Joel's saliva
C. Madonna's lipstick
D. A jock strap worn by Boy George
Personally, my bet is on (D). TSA has already shown that their agents have both underwear and crotch fetishes.
Oct 7, 2010 | 1:39 pm
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Funny, somebody else just sent me a link to the story in the NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/07/ar...MiR0cFrmzE2R9w
From that story:
Yet despite the display of federal investigative force, the interest in Lennon’s fingerprint card may turn out to be prosaic, perhaps having to do with ownership of government property. On Wednesday an F.B.I. spokesman, James Margolin, said there was an “investigation into how that item came to be up for auction.”
Yeah, lets tie up a ton of man hours for an old fingerprint card.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/07/ar...MiR0cFrmzE2R9w
From that story:
Yet despite the display of federal investigative force, the interest in Lennon’s fingerprint card may turn out to be prosaic, perhaps having to do with ownership of government property. On Wednesday an F.B.I. spokesman, James Margolin, said there was an “investigation into how that item came to be up for auction.”
Yeah, lets tie up a ton of man hours for an old fingerprint card.
Oct 7, 2010 | 3:13 pm
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I would presume that the major concern is not the fingerprint card itself, but the failure of control processes that allowed it to be released in the first place.
Given that the government is already collecting a ton of data on people, I would hope that there are control processes to prevent the unauthorized release of that data.
Given that the government is already collecting a ton of data on people, I would hope that there are control processes to prevent the unauthorized release of that data.
Oct 7, 2010 | 3:38 pm
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Since when did the government care about privacy? Are the Feds now going to track down every decades-old clerical document floating around out there, or are they just PO'd that someone is making money from the sale of this particular one?
Oct 7, 2010 | 7:29 pm
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Oct 8, 2010 | 6:07 am
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The fingerprints were taken for an immigration application Lennon made. Thus, if the print card were stolen before being submitted to the FBI for processing, it is actually a DHS record. And possibly misappropriated by a DHS employee. (Okay, more likely a former employee of an agency now part of DHS, but still...)
Oct 8, 2010 | 7:50 am
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The fingerprints were taken for an immigration application Lennon made. Thus, if the print card were stolen before being submitted to the FBI for processing, it is actually a DHS record. And possibly misappropriated by a DHS employee. (Okay, more likely a former employee of an agency now part of DHS, but still...)
You're accusing them of breaking and entering now?
Oct 8, 2010 | 11:58 am
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Perhaps it is government property. If someone breaks into my home and steals my passport or Social Security card, that would be theft of government property that is in my possession.