[FreedomCalls]

The FBI said he would have gotten the job but for the fact that his fingerprints were outside of newly created DHS guidelines. Read the article.

[Triple Word Score]

The guidelines are derivative of previous guidelines used for security clearances--they didn't come out of thin air.

Many, many people haven't gotten jobs they wanted because of physical aspects of themselves that disqualified them. That is hardly new.

Please come up with one new way that the DHS has infringed on the freedom of American citizens. Derivative injustices don't count--our government has done that since day one. Ask the ghost of patriot George Rogers Clark, brother to William Clark, who secured the Kentucky Territory for his nation at his own expense, and paid his soldiers himself because Congress promised him they'd make good on the debt. They never paid him; he died broke, and broken-hearted. Ask William Clark, who received his promised (albeit thoroughly posthumous) promotion to the rank of his partner Merriweather Lewis only in the waning days of the Clinton administration.

(That single act by the ex-Commander-in-Sink is the ONLY act for which I applaud him.)

[Old Student]

I read the article. People with no fingerprints have had a hard time getting clearances for as long as I've been in the workforce. The guy wants to work in a nuclear power plant. They want to be able to identify him, positively, from fingerprints. He hasn't got any, they don't have to hire him. ENDFILE.