Complementary articles appearing in the op.ed. pages of Wednesday's Wall Street Journal and Tuesday's Washington Times make clear, however, that the robustnessandreliability of that deterrent is in jeopardy thanks to policies being pursued -- and others now under consideration -- by the Clinton Administration.
"In the last couple of years the technology has leapt forward in terms of its reliability, its accuracy and its robustness, " says Nick Morse, from UK Biometrics, a supplier of biometrics technology to the British market.