In a June 24 letter to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Hillary and six other Democrats questioned whether military recruiters were engaged in racial profiling by collecting personal data on high school students.

"We fail to see a legitimate need for the creation of a database containing such personal information and are concerned that it may be an inappropriate effort to profile students based on ethnicity and other personal factors," she complained.

In a post to her official Senate Web site that same day, Mrs. Clinton charged that recruiters were "infringing on the privacy of high school students" by using a market research firm to find out if they might be good candidates for a military career. [See: http://clinton.senate.gov/news/statements/details.cfm?id=239912&&]

In what sounded like a blast at the armed forces, the top Democrat declared, "It is critical that we do everything we can to make sure that our most sensitive personal information stays out of the wrong hands."

The Pentagon - "the wrong hands"?

Mrs. Clinton insisted that recruiters should be denied access to Social Security numbers, ethnicities, birth dates, class schedules and grade point averages - the kind of information that might help the military identify those most likely to want to serve their country.

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