From The Financial Times:Valuable intelligence on thousands of suspected terrorists risks being lost because of backlogs at a little-known US federal government database that processes DNA samples gathered in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.
The unfinished work at the database – part of a classified intelligence partnership of military, intelligence and law enforcement agencies – has been referred to in public documents but has not been openly discussed by US government officials.
The Department of Justice sought funding this year for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, one of the agencies taking part in the programme, to automate processing of DNA material.
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Update: Joint Intelligence DNA Database Described -- Secrecy News
My Comment: There has to be a faster and more efficient way to handle this intelligence work.