perfidy

Andrew Sullivan is writing over at MSNBC about the government's increased efforts to rely on private data-collection firms to get the information they are barred from collecting themselves. 

Now, that's just a dirty trick, not to mention stupid. Private data collection firms don't have a great duty to verify the truth of their data any more than the government does. It has taken Li'l Sister Two-Cents years to clear her name, after another person with the same name ran into huge credit trouble. The databases just never seemed to be be updated, time and again. 

This is the awesome power the Gubmint wants to harness? I guess we shouldn't look forward to them changing the name on the J. Edgar Hoover building after all.