[ContemptofCourt]

Are you saying that once any agency, no matter how local, has your prints, they are available to any agency in the world? That is a bit scary.

[johnfrink]

Something else I read today indicated that he was under suspicion prior to them checking his prints against the prints found in Spain.

[July 4th]

Are you saying that once any agency, no matter how local, has your prints, they are available to any agency in the world? That is a bit scary.

Not necessarily, but the feds have access to all of your federal records, and it's likely that all major state agencies are also part of the networked databases.

[jpl]

Are you saying that once any agency, no matter how local, has your prints, they are available to any agency in the world? That is a bit scary.

This isn't the early twentieth century, all it takes to go completely around the world is a little bit of cash, a passport, and perhaps a visa. Of course local law enforcement agencies, federal governments, and Interpol are going to share whatever information they have on a suspect, including fingerprints, particularly when it involves a serious international crime such as this one.

My fingerprints are on file and I don't find it "scary", because I have no intentions of going somewhere and killing a bunch of people.

[VRWC_minion]

When you get them you sign a release.

[MagnumRancid]

The FBI, or state equivilant, i.e. TBI, KBI, process fingerprints for many security clearance applications, both for government and private agencies. Once they got 'em, they got 'em.

[jocon307]

"Are you saying that once any agency, no matter how local, has your prints, they are available to any agency in the world? That is a bit scary."

Well, I'm not sure if what you say is accurate, but first off I'd say the US Military is hardly "local", it must be a huge data base.

What I'm wondering about is, I doubt they took whatever prints they found and checked them against every available data base, even a big one, filled with mostly male data like the US Military.

They must have had some other reason to search out this guy, don't you think?

And him being a Muslim convert and lawyer for terrorists? It really seems they must have had some clue as to whose prints they were looking for, don't you think?

[RJS1950]

It's been that way at least since the 30's.