September 1, 2006

FBI scans college files

For the past five years an office in the Education Department has scanned through its databases of millions of students' federal financial aid and college enrollment records in search of terrorist names supplied by the FBI. The effort, dubbed "Project Strike Back," was created by the Education Department's Office of Inspector General after the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, to expand the office's mission to include counterterrorism. They found and shared personal information including at least names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers and driver's license numbers.

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