[tkathy]

This smells like a vast government bureaucracy is starting to bloat.

[Yeti]

This smells like a vast government bureaucracy is starting to bloat.

It surely is. This should be work of a joint task force between the FBI and the INS.

The "database" sounds like one of those bottomless high-dollar projects that causes DHS to be in perpetual dire need of a budget increase, "to save the children."

Four people and a scanner could knock it out in a couple months, but this will take hundreds or maybe thousands of people, dedicated buildings and a dozen massively parallel computers and it will drag on for years, with no results.

[NetValue]

"This smells like a vast government bureaucracy is starting to bloat."

It's called "mission creep".