General Wants to Scan More U.S. Irises, Fingerprints

Air Force Gen. Victor Renuart, the Pentagon's homeland security commander, thinks one of the tools the military uses to combat insurgents in Iraq -- the collection of biometric data -- is needed here at home.

The Associated Press has this alarming quote from Renuart, who spoke Tuesday at a defense industry conference in northern Virginia:

"Interestingly, we are probably further forward in using biometrics outside our country in some of the combat environments than we are inside our country," said the general. "We’ve got to find a way to fix that."

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