My Way News - Dodd Seeks Boost on Surveillance Bill
AP reports: "The Senate is considering whether to shield the telecommunications companies from the roughly 40 pending civil lawsuits alleging violations of communications and wiretapping laws. The White House says if the cases go forward they could reveal information that would compromise national security."

Washington Post - Spurred by Gratitude, "Bomb Lady" Develops Better Weapons for U.S.
The Washington Post reports:

Duong's most recent innovation, the Joint Expeditionary Forensics Facilities (JEFF) project or "lab in a box," analyzes biometrics. It will be delivered to Iraq at the beginning of 2008, the Navy said, to help distinguish insurgents from civilians. [...] the military has been scanning the irises and taking the fingerprints of Iraqis, feeding a biometrics data base in West Virginia. [...] Each collapsible, sand-colored, 20-by-20-foot unit has its own generator and satellite link. If things go as planned, data will beamed to the Biometric Fusion Center to check against more than a million Iraqi fingerprints.

What a great use of biometric technology, if this helps to minimize civilian casualties, it will be more than worth it. I'm not really an alarmist on this kind of thing. I mean, it's not like they are implanting them with RFID chips, this technology is pretty old (fingerprints!) so I see this as just one more example of how the use of biometrics is being accelerated in this age of terrorism and war.