After nearly two years of experimenting with biometric technologies to identify enemy combatants in Iraq, the Pentagon has asked an influential advisory panel to consider how to accord these new activities -- which include collection of adversaries' fingerprints -- a more permanent place in the U.S. military. Kenneth Krieg, the under secretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics, directed the Defense Science Board earlier this month to establish the "Task Force on Defense Biometrics Program" to recommend how best...
