Recent AP story...

Apparently, a recent Congressional investigation has revealed widespread misuse of the National Crime Information Center. The most scandalous case occured when an ex-officer found his ex-girlfriend using the system and killed her. In other cases, the girlfriend of a drug dealer ran all the new recruits through the system to see if they were undercover agents. In many cases, private investigators accessed the data for a number of different purposes. It is interesting to note that all of the access was caused by insiders (as a previous poster noted ). These are the people we're going to trust with the Clipper technology? -Peter