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WASHINGTON (AP) - Outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said Wednesday the United States should put the fingerprints of citizens traveling abroad on their passports. 'If we're going to ask the rest of the world to put fingerprints on their passports, we ought to put our fingerprints on our passports,' Ridge told a room full of homeland security experts at a morning speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. The United States recently began fingerprinting and photographing citizens of 27 countries - including nations that are staunch allies - when they arrive for short visits. The idea was to close a perceived national security gap. Critics fear that fingerprinting could violate personal privacy rights..
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