"Roundup Nabs more than 10,000"

Now, here's an interesting little story.  First showed up at:
The Associated Press
By Mark Sherman
Thursday, April 14, 2005; 12:53 PM (EDT, I imagine).

It has been picked up all over, but Mark Sherman's is the only byline I see.  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7502570/

"Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and U.S. Marshals Service director Ben Reyna were to announce details of the roundup later Thursday.

Codenamed "Operation Falcon," the dragnet was the largest ever in numbers of arrests and involved local, state and federal authorities, said Marshals Service spokesman David Turner.

Congress gave the Marshals Service more money and authority to go after fugitives when it refocused the FBI's mission toward stopping terrorism in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, Turner said. The Marshals Service now has five permanent regional task forces to search for fugitives, he added.

"Officials insist the operation was strictly designed to carry out law enforcement objectives but acknowledge the scope of the operation was expected to prompt positive publicity.

In addition, one official said the operation, originally considered for later this spring, was timed in part to coincide with "Crime Victims Rights Week."

"One thing this does is demonstrate support for victims of all these crimes. When these fugitives are captured, it helps bring closure," said the law enforcement source."

I know our law enforcement folks periodically go through these kinds of things, but this is admittedly interesting.  Is this timed, not only as stated to coincide with Crime Victims Rights Week, but also to coincide with Negroponte's confirmation hearings?  Is this a practice for broader roundups later on?  I am skeptical by nature, and slow to see conspiracies, but this looks like a nice practice for integrating federal agencies with local police and sheriff's departments.

I recognize that these are apparently genuinely bad folks who have been accused of murder, skipped bail, etc. in order to flee justice.

However, anyone else see more to this than meets the eye?

"Round up the ususal suspects".

I guess I'm focusing on Negroponte because of his power as Ueber-enforcer and ccordinator of all spies and law enforcement, both FOREIGN and DOMESTIC.  Just recall, please, his stint as Ambassador to Honduras, and his "plausible deniability" as to his involvement with the death-squads there.  Couple this with the permanent detention facilities being built in Guantanamo, and "out-sourcing" of torture to other countries, and I get a little worked up.