US Visitor Surveillance System Brings Some Solace to Families of MH17 Victims

Nextgov: A Department of Homeland Security database that warehouses the fingerprints of almost all foreign visitors to catch terrorists recently was used for a different purpose -- bringing closure to bereft families.

U.S. authorities checked the system’s records against residual, or “latent,” prints left behind at the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crash site. As a result, DHS was able to help identify “a few” victims of the July 2014 disaster in Ukraine, department officials said.

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