Joint Federal Agencies Intelligence DNA Database
 Joint Federal Agencies Intelligence DNA Database(surveillance database)   | |
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| A little known US intelligence DNA database. |
The Joint Federal Agencies Intelligence DNA Database is “a searchable database of DNA profiles from detainees and known or suspected terrorists.”[1][2]
According to a 2007 report of the Defense Science Board, the JFAIDD contains 15,000 DNA profiles, with “a queue of 30,000 new samples in the laboratory and 400 [pending] requests for DNA profiles, searches, or comparisons.” [3] Given the huge advances in technology since then, these numbers are obsolete.
Given the small number of DNA samples in mentioned in 2007, it is not one of the main intelligence DNA databases. Given the scale of US intelligence efforts, with programs such as DARPA's Total Information Awareness (which later became Facebook) or the Utah Data Center storing exabytes of data, the still unknown DNA databases would contain the DNA-profiles of tens or hundreds of millions of people.
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It is operated in part by private contractors and is an offshoot of the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory in Rockville, Maryland, that identifies remains of soldiers missing in action.[4]
The Defense Science Board report said the idea for the covert repository and database of DNA samples for identifying and tracking terrorist subjects, which it dubbed “Black Helix”, first “surfaced” in February 2001 – a month after President George W. Bush took office and before the September 11 2001 attacks.[4]
“The FBI has been collecting biological evidence from improvised explosive devices (IEDs) removed from Iraq and Afghanistan and databasing the mtDNA profiles from this evidence since February 2004,” the Justice Department said in its 2009 budget justification book for the FBI [5]
