By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN由菲利普莫里斯sniffen

The FBI wants to compile a massive computer database and analyze it for clues to unmask terrorist sleeper cells.聯邦調查局要編纂一部龐大的計算機數據庫，並分析它的線索，以揭露恐怖臥舖細胞。

Two congressmen are worried about whether the bureau will protect the privacy of US citizens.兩名國會議員擔心是否主席團會保護隱私的美國公民。

Reps. Brad Miller, DN.C., and James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., the chairman and ranking Republican on the House Science and Technology investigations subcommittee, asked the Government Accountability Office to investigate the proposal.報導，米勒， dn.c. ，詹姆斯森森布倫納，俄-為WIS ，主席及高層對共和黨眾議院科學與技術調查委員會，要求政府問責辦公室調查的建議。 Their June 4 letter to GAO was released Tuesday.他們6月4日寫信給高被釋放週二。

Miller and Sensenbrenner questioned both the FBI’s ability to properly manage such a large trove of data and whether predictive data-mining even works or just falsely casts suspicion on innocent people.米勒和森森布倫納表示質疑聯邦調查局的能力，妥善管理如此龐大的有價值的數據，以及是否預測數據挖掘，甚至工程或只是虛假地使人懷疑，對無辜的人。

The FBI is seeking $12 million in the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1 for its Foreign Terrorist Tracking Task Force to set up a National Security Branch Analysis Center, with 59 employees, including 23 contractors and five FBI agents.聯邦調查局正在尋求1200萬美元的財政年度始於10月1日為外國恐怖分子追踪專責小組，以建立一個全國性的保安科分析中心， 59個員工，包括23名承包商和五個聯邦調查局特工。

Justice Department budget documents submitted to Congress predict the center will hold 6 billion records by 2012 and “the universe of subjects will expand exponentially.” That would equal “20 separate ‘records’ for each man, woman and child in the United States,” the congressmen wrote.美國司法部的預算文件中向國會提交的預測，該中心將舉辦60億元的紀錄， 2012年和"宇宙的科目將擴大指數" ，這將相當於" 20單獨的'記錄' ，為每一個男人，婦女和兒童，在美國， "國會議員寫信。

The center “will leverage existing data-mining tools to help identify relationships between individuals, locations and events that may be indicators of terrorist or other activities of interest,” the Justice documents said, and these efforts “will improve efforts to identify ’sleeper cells.’”該中心"將利用現有的數據挖掘工具，以幫助識別關係的個人，地點和事件，可指標的恐怖主義或其他活動的興趣， "司法文件說，這方面的努力" ，將改善努力，以確定'臥舖細胞' " 。

Eleven workers in a Proactive Data Exploitation unit will be assigned to ferret out patterns of suspicious behavior in the data, the congressmen wrote. 11名工人中，積極為數據開採單位，將被分派到深挖模式的可疑行為，在數據，國會議員寫信。

They said the program resembles the Pentagon’s Total Information Awareness anti-terror data-mining research program.他們說，該計劃類似於五角大樓的整體信息意識反恐數據挖掘的研究項目的一部分。 Congress ended TIA in 2003 out of privacy concerns, but much of its research was transferred to secret accounts in other agencies.代表大會結束評估工作， 2003年出的隱私問題，但它的許多研究被轉移到秘密帳戶中的其他機構。

FBI spokesman Mike Kortan had no comment on the letter but pointed out that bureau policy requires that “we adhere to all established DOJ guidelines, FBI policy and the law” when data-mining.聯邦調查局發言人麥克kortan並未就此事發表評論信件，但他指出，局政策要求， "我們堅持一切既定的準則司法部，聯邦調查局政策和法律"時，數據挖掘。

Miller and Sensenbrenner quoted Jeff Jonas, a data-mining expert and IBM Distinguished Engineer, as saying “data-mining for terrorism discovery … would waste taxpayer dollars, needlessly infringe on privacy and civil liberties and misdirect the valuable time and energy of the men and women in the national security community.”米勒和森森布倫納引述傑夫的Jonas ，數據挖掘專家和IBM傑出工程師，說： "數據挖掘，為恐怖主義的發現…會浪費納稅人的錢，毫無必要地侵犯個人隱私和公民自由和誤導的寶貴時間和精力的男性和婦女在國家安全共同體" 。

Jonas recently wrote that because there are so few known terrorist patterns of behavior, this kind of search would “flood the national security system with false positives _ suspects who are truly innocent.”的Jonas最近撰文說，因為有那麼幾個已知的恐怖分子的行為模式，這種搜索會"洪水國家安全系統與假陽性_嫌疑人，是真正無辜的" 。

The two congressmen added that the FBI’s history suggests “the agency may have difficulty developing and operating” such a center.兩位眾議員說，美國聯邦調查局的歷史經驗表明， "該機構可能會遇到困難，開發和經營"這樣一個中心。 “The FBI has historically been unable to develop information systems in a reliable cost-effective and technically proficient manner,” they wrote. "聯邦調查局已經在歷史上一直無法發展信息系統，在一個可靠的成本效益和技術不精的態度， "他們寫道。

They noted:他們指出：

_The FBI junked its Virtual Case File computerized records system in 2005 after spending $170 million without solving technical troubles. _the聯邦調查局廢棄其虛擬案件檔案電腦化檔案系統， 2005年後消費170000000美元沒有解決技術麻煩。 The replacement is reportedly running behind schedule.更換據說誤點。

_An FBI consultant was able to hack into classified bureau computers last year and access counterespionage and witness protection files and 38,000 FBI passwords, including Director Robert Mueller’s. _an聯邦調查局顧問能夠潛入歸類局電腦去年獲得反間諜和證人保護檔案和38000聯邦調查局密碼，其中包括局長羅伯特米勒的。

_In March, Justice’s inspector general found that FBI agents using National Security Letters “had demanded personal data without proper authorization, improperly obtained personal telephone records and banking records and underreported to Congress how often it used national security letters to obtain information on thousands of US citizens.” The inspector general found 48 violations of law and estimated there were 3,000 violations between 2003 and 2005. _in 3月，司法部的總檢察長發現聯邦調查局特工使用國家安全信件" ，要求個人資料未經適當授權，不當取得的個人電話記錄和銀行記錄和不足，向國會提出如何往往使用國家安全信件，以獲取數千美國公民" 。督察長發現， 48個違法違紀的，估計有3000名違反2003年和2005年。

_The GAO found in 2005 that the Foreign Terrorist Tracking Task Force did not comply with all privacy and security laws and rules for handling sensitive information. _the高發現，在2005年，該外國恐怖分子追踪工作隊不遵守所有的隱私和安全的法律和規則來處理敏感的信息。

The congressmen asked the GAO to determine what records will be acquired, from which agencies or commercial entities, who will be granted access to them and under what restrictions.美國國會要求高，以確定哪些記錄將被收購，由哪些機構或商業實體，他們將獲准進入他們的，以及在什麼限制。 GAO also was asked to learn whether the center will contain records on US citizens and what the bureau has done to guarantee those are accurate and protected from misuse and how they will be used.高，也有人問到是否了解，該中心今後將含有記錄，對美國公民和美國有什麼主席團所做的保證，這些都是準確和保護，免被濫用，以及如何被使用的方式。

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