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Certify whether they have a significant tax delinquency. that requirement is deterring tax delinquents getting federal contracts. skeptics wonder if companies that haven't paid taxes have any real hesitation about signing a piece of paper falsely representing they have. analysts say the current data bases need to be cleaned up and coordinated so agents can find out if a company that comes looking for taxpayer money is up to date on the own obligation. >> we need better data, better oversight and more contracting offices to be able to track this. only then will we get value for taxpayer dollars...

They knew what the outside looked like. we'll tell you how they managed to get in there and figure out what to do once they got inside. it's 53 minutes after the hour. >> it's quiet in professor jing's lab. don't be fooled. his team is hard at work, using computer keystrokes in the fight against crime. >> we are working in the area called biometric recognition. goal is to identify a person based on body character tests, could be fingerprints, face. >> matching data bases helps shrink the pool of suspects. >> that means it's a fairly good match. >> scan people's tattoos and searchs for similar ...

Growing. this is the vault. these servers hold vast data bases containing at last count 24 million records of lost or stolen travel documents. and more than 100,000 dna records. the dna data base didn't even exist before 9/11. interpol's headquarters is the gate keeper of this vast data bank. the information arrives in the global members, it's pooled and then deployed where it's needed most. that happens up here in the command center under the watchful eye of the assistant director emmanuel laclair. >> the first of the entry point of the information coming from police services at the interpol....

By the way we should be glad about raising revenue, given the budget situation, the deficit situation we have in our country and that's what these people do is collect revenue. >> stuart: all right, charlie, what do you say? >> i'm going to skip this for a second because i don't want to be audited. (laughter) >> just don't call them names. >> stuart: and have a name and-- >> thugs, irs, now we've added 5,000 more, i'm only kidding. i agree we need a flatter tax code and some of this is the result of the fact that some-- some of this is to the effect. when you vote-- >> and somebody at the irs ...

1,000 cases of misconduct over the last three years. many are highlighted right here in confidential summearies of disciplinary disorders. why many of the employees didn't lose their jobs? including a sex tape, sleeping with informants, tapping into fbi data bases for unauthorized searches. viewing pornography on bureau computers. even driving drunk. we went to the president of the fbi agents association. it was pretty appalling, reading some of the acts of misconduct. is that ever acceptable? no, it isn't acceptable. criminal conduct is not acceptable and never should be. >> here are just a f...