Jon Kyl actually said...

it seems to me that, just as a general proposition--let me get your reaction to it--that while guidelines are really important when you are ...

I think you are skipping one step. The names are reported to someone who determines whether or not they have any kind of information on them...

Well, with all due respect, a lot of police work is based on hunches and suspicions...

So there could be different standards, depending upon the nature of the investigation.