What privacy advocates often fail to address in their conceptual attacks on matching is the simple fact that the critical government databases on people sit on the same mainframes, managed by people who report to the same person. One Big File. Harry H. Flickinger is Assistant attorney general for administration in the Justice Department. There is a new vacant post under him, for Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Information Resources Management. Although it is diversified in what it does, the components tend to impact one another.
Investigators go out and conduct investigations that lead to prosecution.
We have lawyers that handle that. Prosecution may lead to incarceration. We have the Bureau of Prisons. The theory is, we ought to have one system that lets virtually anybody in this department regardless of location talk to anybody else.