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Home Office, civilians all fingers and thumbs on biometrics

Anonymous Coward

Pre-emptive blame 

Sounds a bit like, lets blame the civil servants / public before the technology fails. I have notice a tendency to blame problems on administrative failures etc, rather than someone taking responsibility for bad choices.

Rhys

Beaurocratic cover-my-arse 

'nuff said.